constituency predecessor successor parliament birth_place constituency_mp death_date death_place party primeminister birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
ashburton william macdonald william massey francis bell john mclachlan oswald hawken william downie stewart gordon coates electorate abolished new zealand christchurch , new zealand ashburton 26 september 1946 ashburton , new zealand reform massey coates , bell , coates bell , coates gordon 18 october 1867 8th minister of foreign affairs minister of agriculture 23rd minister of finance 4th 4 1908 september 1919 14 may 1925 24 may 1926 william nosworthy
 21 1928 january 1926 24 may 1926 24 august 1928 sir william nosworthy
william nosworthy

sir william nosworthy -lrb- 18 october 1867 -- 26 september 1946 -rrb- was a new zealand politician .
he briefly served as minister of finance and then minister of external affairs in the reform government .
