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Joseph Braithwaite

Name
Joseph Braithwaite

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Background

Bookseller and Mayor. Born in England, his family emigrated to Australia in 1852 and then to Dunedin in 1860. He married in 1872 and had between 16 and 22 children. He opened a bookshop in 1863, eventually opening “Braithwaite's Book Arcade” on Princes Street in 1883. He was elected as a Councillor in 1901 and 1903 and elected unopposed as Mayor in 1905, serving only a single term.

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Male

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