{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2016}} {{NZ parlbox header|nolist = true}} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1902}} |end=1905 |term=15th |electorate={{NZ electorate link|Marsden}} |party=Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1905}} |end=1908 |term=16th |electorate=Marsden |party=Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1908}} |end=1909 |term=17th |electorate=Marsden |party=Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox allegiance |start=1909 |end=1911 |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1911}} |end=1914 |term=18th |electorate=Marsden |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1914}} |end=1919 |term=19th |electorate=Marsden |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1919}} |end=1922 |term=20th |electorate=Marsden |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{End}} '''Francis Mander''' (1849 – 27 August 1942) was a member of parliament in New Zealand, first as an Independent Conservative and then, from 1909, as a Reform Party member.
He won the Marsden electorate in Northland in the 1902 general election, and held it until 1922, when he retired.
He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1923, and served on it to 1930.
In business he was a pioneer sawmiller and owner of ''The Northern Chronicle'' newspaper, based in Whangarei. He then purchased a popular newspaper, ''The Northern Advocate'', and closed the ''Chronicle''.
He was the father of the notable New Zealand novelist and journalist, Jane Mander, and a descendant of the Mander family of Midland England.
==References== *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 }}
{{s-start}} {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before = Robert Thompson}} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Marsden|years=1902–1922}} {{s-aft | after = Alfred Murdoch}} {{end}}
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