Mervyn Langlois "Merv" Wellington, QSO

Queen's Service Order

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 (1940 - 7 September 2003) was a New Zealand

New Zealand

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 politician of the National Party

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Member of Parliament

He represented the Manurewa

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 electorate from 1975 to 1978, and then the Papakura

Papakura (New Zealand electorate)

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 electorate from 1978 to 1990, when he retired.

Wellington served as a Cabinet minister, being the Minister of Education

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 from 13 December 1978 to 26 July 1984. Wellington was a Muldoon

Robert Muldoon

Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon, GCMG, CH served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing National Party. Muldoon had been a prominent member of the National party and MP for the Tamaki electorate for some years prior to becoming leader of the party...

 loyalist, and was demoted after National's 1984

New Zealand general election, 1984

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election defeat.

He died in 2003 - see obituary in NZ Herald Merv Wellington obituary by Arnold Pickmere