{{Short description|New Zealand politician (1883–1957)}} {{For|the South African cricketer|Russell Endean}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}} thumb|Endean, {{circa|1928}} '''William Phillips Endean''' (26 September 1883 – 19 June 1957) was a New Zealand politician, first of the Reform Party then from 1935 the National Party. He failed to be selected for the {{NZ election link|1943}} and was the first sitting National MP with that fate, but was called to the Legislative Council in 1950 as part of the Suicide squad. He was a lawyer by trade.
==Early life== [[File:Pukekohe viewed from the Railway Station.jpg|thumb|Pukekohe viewed from the railway station, with the premises of Endean & Holloway on the right near the gate]] [[File:Terrace Houses Auckland.jpg|thumb|The private house of the Endean family in Symonds Street, Auckland]] Endean was born in 1883 in Auckland. He was the son of John Endean, who made his money in gold mining in Australia, California and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news |title=Births |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18831008.2.39.31.1 |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=The New Zealand Herald |volume=XX |issue=6830 |date=8 October 1883 |page=12}}</ref><ref name="NZETC John Endean">{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Auckland Provincial District |year=1902 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc02Cycl-t1-body1-d1-d63-d13.html |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |access-date= 14 July 2013 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Endean, John}}</ref> His father was later the proprietor of the Waitemata Hotel on the corner of Queen and Customs Street.<ref name="NZETC John Endean" /> His father built the Endeans Building on the corner of Queen and Quay Streets in Auckland in 1905, which was replaced after a fire in 1914–15; it is listed as a Category II heritage building.<ref name="NZHPT 4597">{{NZHPT|4597|Endeans Building|14 July 2013}}</ref> They lived in a large house in Symonds Street, which is listed as a Category I heritage building.<ref name="NZHPT 568">{{NZHPT|568|Terrace Houses|14 July 2013}}</ref> His mother, Ellen Endean (née Phillips), was the first woman who stood for election to Auckland City Council in 1894, only one year after women received the vote in New Zealand.<ref name="NZHPT 4597" /> Endean's middle name was thus his mother's maiden name.
Endean graduated from Auckland University College with LLB in May 1906<ref>{{cite news |title=Auckland University College |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19060530.2.51 |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=Auckland Star |volume=XXXVII |issue=127 |date=30 May 1906 |page=6}}</ref> and was a lawyer until 1930, but interrupted by WWI, when he served with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=309}} He worked with Frederick Baume KC<ref>{{DNZB|last=Rogers|first=Frank|id=2b11|title=Frederick Ehrenfried Baume|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Alleged Libel|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19090219.2.50|access-date=14 July 2013|work=Auckland Star|volume=XL |issue=43 |date=19 February 1909|page=5}}</ref> and upon Baume's death in 1910, he bought his law practice off his estate.<ref>{{cite news |title=Law Notice |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19100816.2.96.3 |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=The New Zealand Herald |volume=XLVII |issue=14449 |date=16 August 1910 |page=10}}</ref> Within months, he took J. A. Holloway as a partner, whom he knew from college, and the practice was known as Endean and Holloway from then on.<ref>{{cite news |title=Legal Notices |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19101105.2.34.7 |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=Auckland Star |volume=XLI |issue=263 |date=5 November 1910 |page=6}}</ref>
Endean married Doris Linwood Simms in 1920.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marriage Search |url= https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2fqueryEntry.m%3ftype%3dmarriages |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=16 July 2013|quote=Enter "Endean" and a start date of "01/01/1900" as search terms}}</ref>
==Political career== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist = true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox |start={{By-election link year|Parnell|1930}} |end=1931 |term=23rd |electorate={{NZ electorate link|Parnell}} |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1931}} |end=1935 |term=24th |electorate=Parnell |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1935}} |end=1936 |term=25th |electorate=Parnell |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox allegiance |start=1936 |end=1938 |party=New Zealand National Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1938}} |end=1943 |term=26th |electorate={{NZ electorate link|Remuera}} |party=New Zealand National Party }} {{End}} Endean first entered Parliament through the 1930 Parnell by-election. The previous representative, Harry Reginald Jenkins of the United Party, had become an Independent<ref>{{cite news |title=Working for Fusion |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19300306.2.69.5 |access-date=13 July 2013 |work=Evening Post |date=6 March 1930 |volume=CIX |issue=55|page=10}}</ref> and sought the by-election to have his position reconfirmed by the electorate.<ref>{{cite news |title=A By-Election |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19300321.2.98.2 |access-date=13 July 2013|work=Evening Post |date=21 March 1930 |volume=CIX |issue=68|page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Will Resign |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19300321.2.101 |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=Auckland Star |volume=LXI |issue=68 |date=21 March 1930 |page=7}}</ref> Jenkins then joined the Reform Party, but Endean was selected as the party's candidate instead.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mr. Endean's Selection |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19300412.2.79.1 |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=Evening Post |date=12 April 1930 |volume=CIX |issue=87|page=10}}</ref>
Endean represented the Auckland electorates of Parnell from 1930 to 1938, and then Remuera from 1938 to 1943.{{sfn|Scholefield|1950|p=104}} When the Reform Party merged with United to form the National Party in 1936, Endean became a National Party member. He was controversial within the National Party and in the party's 50-year history written by Barry Gustafson, it is remarked that in 1938, there was "some resistance to the National MP" in the Remuera electorate.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=25}} His nomination for the planned 1941 general election only occurred after Sidney Holland had stepped in.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=235}} The 1941 election was postponed due to the war, though, and Endean failed to get selected by the National Party for the {{NZ election link|1943}}; Ronald Algie was chosen instead.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=309}} Endean was overseas at the time of the selection, but even if he had been present, Gustafson believes that the "elderly, dull Endean would have been no match for the clever and witty Algie". Endean was the first sitting National MP who failed to get re-selected.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=235}}
Endean was a close friend of Gordon Coates and a member of the 'win the war' group together with Coates, Adam Hamilton, Jack Massey and Bert Kyle.{{sfn|Wood|1996|p=90}}{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=195}}{{sfn|Milne|1966|pp=140–141}} He had considered running as an Independent in the 1943 election, but withdrew at the start of the campaign due to criticism from the National Party.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=309}}
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.<ref name="EP">{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | work=The Evening Post | access-date=2 July 2013 | page=4}}</ref>
===Legislative Council=== Endean was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1950, as one of the so-called suicide squad who voted to abolish it. He was a member from 22 June until 31 December of that year.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=152}}
==Death== Endean died on 19 June 1957.<ref>{{cite web |title=Death Search |url= https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2fqueryEntry.m%3ftype%3ddeaths |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=16 July 2013|quote=Enter "Endean" and "William Phillips" and a start date of "01/01/1930" as search terms}}</ref> His wife died in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |title=Death Search |url= https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2fqueryEntry.m%3ftype%3ddeaths |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=16 July 2013|quote=Enter "Endean" and "Doris" and a start date of "01/01/1930" as search terms}}</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== *{{cite book |last = Gustafson |first = Barry |author-link = Barry Gustafson |title = The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party |year = 1986 |publisher = Reed Methuen |location = Auckland |isbn = 0-474-00177-6 }} *{{cite book |first = Robert Stephen |last = Milne |title = Political Parties in New Zealand |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalparties0000miln |url-access=registration |place = Oxford, England |publisher = Clarendon Press |year = 1966}} *{{cite book |author-link = Guy Scholefield |last= Scholefield |first= Guy |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 |edition=3rd |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1950 |publisher=Govt. Printer |location= Wellington}} *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}} *{{Cite book |editor-last=Wood|editor-first=GA|year=1996|title=Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament|publisher=Otago University Press|location=Dunedin}}
==External links== *[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZTR19300501.2.6.1 Photo of Endean] published in 1930 in the New Zealand Truth *{{cite web|url= https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21087801 |title= William Endean WWI RNVR Personnel file |publisher=Archives New Zealand }}
{{s-start}} {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before = Harry Jenkins}} {{s-ttl | title= Member of Parliament for Parnell| years=1930–1938}} {{s-vac|reason=Constituency abolished, recreated in 1946|next=Duncan Rae}} |- {{s-new | constituency}} {{s-ttl | title= Member of Parliament for Remuera| years=1938–1943}} {{s-aft | after = Ronald Algie}} {{end}}
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