OBITUARY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1930, Page 5

OBITUARY

SIR ROBERT STOUT.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, July 19. Sir Robert Stout died at 9.33 this morning, aetat 87 years.

THE HON. SIR ROBERT STOUT, formerly a member of the House of Representatives for Dunedin City, Avas bom in the Shetland Islands Avliere lie received a good education, and at 13 years of age he became a pupil teacher. In 1863 AA'hen 18 years of age, lie set out for New Zealand and arrived in Dunedin early in the folloAving year. For some time he Was engaged in teach- / ing and then studied for the legal profession, in 1871, having been admitted a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court' of Ncav Zealand, he commenced an illustrious legal career. Sir Robert Avas elected to tlie Otago Provincial Council in 1873, and subsequently became Provincial Solicitor. In 1875 he entered the House of Representatives as member for Dunedin; in 1877 he accepted a portfolio of Attorney-General in Sir George Grey's Admihistratioh, and soon afterwards became Minister of Lancia and Immigration. The StoutVogel Ministry, in which Sir Robert was Premier, Attorney-General and Minister of Education, held office from the 3rd. September 1884 till the Bth October 1887. Sir Robert Stout’s progressive Legislation benefited the cause of education and the conditions of the working classes. FeAV men have had a greater influence on the colonie’s welfare. In 1893 he was elected member for Inangahua, and having transferred his business from Dunedin to Wellington, Avas in the end of the same year, elected senior Member for Wellington On the 22nd. of June, 1899, he Avag appointed Chief Justice of New Zealand in succession to Sir James Prendergast. Sir Robert was called to the Legislative Council on 3rd. August 1926. Of late he has been gradually failing in Wealth.