Irving Hetherington Carruthers

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Irving Hetherington Carruthers (born October 27, 1888 , Samoa - † July 5, 1974 ) was a West Samoan businessman and politician.

Life

Carruthers was born in Samoa in 1888. He was one of five children of Richard and Matua Carruthers. His father was a Scottish solicitor who had come to Samoa from Melbourne , Australia and worked for Robert Louis Stevenson . Irving Carruthers received his education at the School of the Marist Brothers School in Apia , after which he began to work as a businessman. He leased a cocoa - plantation in Malaedono and became a member of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters Association .

Carruthers married Anne Jennings of Swains Island and had five children with her. Anne died in the early 1900s. Carruthers later married again: Vaopunimatagi Seumanautafa (1919). After the death of his second wife, he married Moe (1934), with whom he had three more children. In 1929 he founded IH Carruthers , a cocoa and copra trading company. This was later renamed Eveni Carruthers .

Carruthers ran for the Western Samoan General Election for the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in 1932 with support from the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association and was elected along with his brother-in-law, Alan Cobcroft . He was re-elected in 1935, but could not be re-elected in 1938.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gone but not forgotten. In: Samoa Observer , December 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Our Story Eveni Pacific.
  3. ^ A b Samoan elections Pacific Islands Monthly , December 1932: 38–39.
  4. ^ A b Samoa Legislative Council Pacific Islands Monthly, December 1935: 31.
  5. ^ Western Samoa Legislative Council . In: New Zealand Herald , December 21, 1938.
personal data
SURNAME Carruthers, Irving Hetherington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carruthers, Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Samoan plantation owner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Samoa
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1974