HINDMARSH, ALFRED HUMPHREY (1860-1918) was born at Adelaide and educated at St Peter's College there. In 1878 he came to New Zealand. He was for some years in the office of Smith, Chapman, Sinclair and White, solicitors, Dunedin, and was admitted a barrister and solicitor at Christchurch (1890). In 1894 he commenced to practise in Wellington. He was a member of the City Council (1905-15) and of the Wellington Harbour Board from 1911. Taking a keen interest in Liberal politics, he was defeated by R. C. Kirk for selection as Labour candidate for Wellington City in 1898. In 1911 he was elected M.H.R. for Wellington South, defeating R. A. Wright and in 1914 he defeated J. P. Luke. At the time of his death (on 13 Nov 1918) Hindmarsh was leader of the Parliamentary Labour party.

Evening Post, 13 Nov 1918; N.Z. Times, 14 Nov; N.Z.P.D., 13 Nov 1918, pp 343, 355; Cycl. N.Z., vi. Portrait: Parliament House.

His father, JOHN HINDMARSH (1820-1903) was the son of Rear-admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, Governor of South Australia. He was educated at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, but being too delicate for the Navy he accompanied his father to South Australia, where he spent some years surveying. He helped to lay out the towns of Hindmarsh and Walkerville. In 1841 he returned to England, entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar. He then settled on a large property at Victor Harbour, South Australia, also practising law and acting as revising barrister. He married a daughter of Captain Leworthy, R.N. In 1878 Hindmarsh came to New Zealand for the benefit of his health and acquired a property near Napier.

Reference: Volume 1, page 212

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