Richard Stuttaford
Richard Stuttaford (born June 13, 1870 in Cape Town , Cape Colony ; † June 19, 1945 in Stellenbosch , Cape Province ) was a South African politician who was minister in the South African Union several times .
Life
Richard Stuttaford, son of the commercial entrepreneur Samson Rickard Stuttaford, completed his school education in England and France . After his return he began his professional career in 1892 in the department store chain Thorne, Stuttaford & Company , founded by his father and Sir William Thorne , of which he became Managing Director in 1917. He began his political career in local politics as a member of the Cape Town City Council and was also chairman of the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce between 1918 and 1920. In 1920 he founded the country's first garden city , which today is a suburb of Cape Town and has developed into a densely populated district ( Pinelands Garden City ). He was inspired by Letchworth and Hampstead . He also served as Chairman of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of South Africa from 1921 to 1923. In 1924 he was elected a member of the Union Parliament ( House of Assembly of South Africa, Volksraad van Suid-Afrika ) in the constituency of Newlands (Cape Town) and was able to prevail against the candidate of the constitutional democrats, CA Lagesen. In the elections in 1929 and 1933, he was re-elected as a member of parliament without opposing candidates. However, he ran after the dissolution of the Newlands constituency in 1933 for the Suid-Afrikaanse Party SAP (South African Party) in the Claremont constituency (Cape Town).
In 1933 Stuttaford entered a government of the South African Union for the first time and took over the office of Minister without Portfolio (Minister sonder portefeulje) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Barry Hertzog , which he held until 1936. Subsequently, on December 9, 1936, he replaced Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr as Minister of the Interior (Minister van Binnelandse Sake) and held this office until he was replaced by Harry Lawrence on September 6, 1939. At the same time he was between 1936 and 1939 Minister of Health (Minister van Gesondheid) and Minister of Social Welfare (Minister van Volkswelsyn) . In 1938 he was elected as a candidate of the United South African National Party UP ( Verenigde Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Party ) in the constituency of Claremont again as a member of the People's Assembly and this time prevailed against the candidate of the Dominium Party EMO Clough.
After Jan Christiaan Smuts succeeded Barry Hertzog as the new Prime Minister on September 5, 1939, Richard Stuttaford took over the post of Minister for Trade and Industry (Minister van Handel en Nywerheid) and held this position until he was succeeded by Sidney Frank Waterson .
He accompanied the Prime Minister during negotiations with the British trade authorities in Ottawa and was instrumental in the establishment of the South African Industrial Development Corporation ( Industrial Development Corporation ) responsible on October 1, 1940th To work out the concept for founding this company, he commissioned two experts, AC McColm, a manager of ISCOR ( South African Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation ), and BH Friel, a lawyer from Johannesburg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eric Rosenthal: Southern African Dictionary of National Biography . Frederick & Warne, London, New York 1966, p. 368
- ^ South Africa: Interior Ministers in Rulers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stuttaford, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town , Cape Colony |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1945 |
| Place of death | Stellenbosch , Cape Province |