Claim: The initial intention of Charles Hayward Izard, a former New Zealand Member of Parliament from Wellington, to only stand in a Christchurch electorate at the 1905 general election was changed when his father died in mid March, and a request was put to him to stand in the City of Wellington electorate to fill the vacancy.
Evidence: Izard also stood for City of Wellington in a by-election in 1905, coming second to fellow Liberal Francis Fisher. Izard was born in Wellington on 19 January 1862, the eldest son of Charles Beard Izard, who was a prominent and popular Wellington lawyer and MP for Wellington Suburbs. Charles Beard Izard (4 December 1829 – 23 October 1904) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament and lawyer in Wellington, New Zealand.