caption constituency relations predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
thomas wilford in 1928 hutt thomas -rrb- mason -lrb- grandfather -rrb- george mclean -lrb- father-in-law william macdonald alfred newman george forbes david mclaren 22 june 1939 lower hutt , new zealand wellington , new zealand liberal mayor of wellington 20 june 1870 8th leader of the opposition 18th 8 september 1920 1910 georgia constance mclean thomas wilford , 1928.jpg thomas wilford
 13 august 1925 1911 sir thomas wilford
thomas wilford

sir thomas mason wilford -lrb- 20 june 1870 -- 22 june 1939 -rrb- was a new zealand politician .
he held the seats of wellington suburbs then hutt continuously for thirty years , from 1899 to 1929 .
wilford was leader of the new zealand liberal party , and leader of the opposition from 1920 to 1925 .
