IZARD, CHARLES BEARD (1829-1904) was born at Brighton, England, and educated at King's College, London, and Magdalen College, Cambridge. (B.A., first senior optime 1854.) He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn (1854) and practised in the chancery division until coming to New Zealand in 1860 by the Avalanche.

Izard commenced to practise in Wellington, and in 1875 admitted H. D. Bell to partnership. Retiring in 1887, he devoted some attention to business, being a director of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Co. and a governor of the Wellington Girls' High School and Boys' College. He contested the Foxton seat in Parliament in 1881, and was elected for Wellington South and Suburbs in 1887. A supporter of Atkinson, he was nevertheless a free-trader, and voted against his leader on his tariff proposals.

Izard married (1859) Miss Hayward (Sussex). He died on 24 Oct 1904.

Cycl. N.Z., i (p); N.Z. Times, 25 Oct 1904.

Reference: Volume 1, page 232

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