Thomas Andrew Hemming Field (1859–1937) was a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 politician of the Reform Party

New Zealand Reform Party

The Reform Party, formally the New Zealand Political Reform League, was New Zealand's second major political party, having been founded as a conservative response to the original Liberal Party...

. He married Jessica Black, and they had four children. His eldest son Arthur Nelson Field

A. N. Field

A. N. Field, full name Arthur Nelson Field, of New Zealand - accused of being a white supremacist, anti-Semite and neofascist.Born in Nelson he was the first son of four children born to Tom Field and Jessica Black...

 was a journalist and right-wing author.

Wilkins and Field

Tom Field was managing director of Wilkins and Field Hardware in Nelson, a firm founded by his father, also Thomas Field. His father migrated from Ireland in to Sydney Australia in 1845, then to New Zealand in 1862. In 1866 he set up the hardware firm in Westport moving it Nelson in 1880.

Political career

He was a Nelson City Councillor for four years, and Mayor of Nelson

Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand

The Mayor of Nelson is the head of the municipal government of Nelson, New Zealand, and presides over the Nelson City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system...

 in 1911–1913. In 1911 Field defeated Thomas Pettit 1231 votes to 1047. Field did not stand in 1913.

He held the Nelson

Nelson (New Zealand electorate)

Nelson is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. From 1853 to 1860, the electorate was called Town of Nelson. From 1860 to 1881, it was City of Nelson...

 electorate for one parliamentary term, from 1914 to 1919, after defeating Harry Atmore

Harry Atmore

Harry Atmore was a New Zealand Independent Member of Parliament for Nelson in the South Island.Harry Atmore held the Nelson seat as an Independent for a total of thirty years from 1911 to 1914 and then from 1919 to his death in 1946...

 in 1914

New Zealand general election, 1914

The New Zealand general election of 1914 was held on 10 December to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 19th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 616,043 voters were registered, of which 84.7% voters turned out to vote....

, but Atmore won the seat back in 1919, and held it for 27 more years.