HAUGHTON, CHARLES EDWARD MALLARD (1827-1904) was born in New South Wales, taken to England as a child and educated at Oxford, where he graduated M.A. with the intention of entering the Church. Being appointed chaplain in H.M.S. Queen, he served in the Crimea. Later, in the Euryalus, as chaplain and naval instructor he taught navigation and mathematics to the Duke of Edinburgh. He retired from the Navy and, having become a Roman Catholic, came to New Zealand (1863) and practised as a mining agent at Queenstown in partnership with Manders (q.v.), who succeeded him as editor of the Wakatipu Mail. Haughton was elected to the Otago Provincial Council in 1865, and sat for seven years (for Queenstown 1865-67; The Lakes 1867-72). He was chairman of committees, and was a member of the executive for a month or two in 1871 (as goldfields secretary under E. B. Cargill). In 1865-66 he was a member of Parliament for the Goldfields, in 1866-70 for Hampden, and in 1871 for Wakatipu. Though he was a Conservative and acted as senior whip for the Stafford Government, he supported the first factory legislation of Bradshaw and Richardson. Haughton retired from Parliament (1871) to accept the position of Under-secretary for Immigration and Mines. In 1876 he left the Government service and joined the staff of the Wellington Independent, from which he passed late in the seventies to the Evening Star, Dunedin. He was leader-writer at the time of his death (16 Apr 1904).

Otago P.C. Proc.; Otago Daily Times and Evening Star, 18 Apr 1904. Portrait: Parliament House.

Reference: Volume 1, page 201

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