Thomas MacDonald

Thomas MacDonald

Sir Thomas Lachlan MacDonald (14 December 1898 - 1980) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was the Member of Parliament for Mataura 1938-46, then Wallace 1946-57, when he retired.

He was Minister of Defence from 1949 to 1957 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1954 to 1957 in the First National Government .

From 1961 to 1968 he was the New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

He was made a KCMG in 1963. He was born in Invercargill, and educated at South School and Southland Boy's High School. He was in the NZEF in Palestine in World War I, and in World War II he served in Egypt, rising to the rank of Captain until he was invalided home in 1943.

References

*"New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
*"The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party" by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland; biographical appendix of National MPs page 329) ISBN 0474001776


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