{{Short description|New Zealand lawyer and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Frederick Baume |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KC|size=100%}} |image = Frederick Ehrenfried Baume.jpg |alt = |constituency_MP1 = {{NZ electorate link|Auckland East}} |parliament1 = New Zealand |term_start1 = 6 December 1905 |term_end1 = 14 May 1910 |predecessor1 = ''new constituency'' |successor1 = Arthur Myers |constituency_MP2 = City of Auckland |parliament2 = New Zealand |term_start2 = 25 November 1902 |term_end2 = 6 December 1905 |predecessor2 = William Napier |successor2 = ''constituency abolished'' |birth_date = 13 June 1862 |birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand |death_date = {{death date and age|1910|5|14|1862|6|13|df=y}} |death_place = Bad Nauheim, Germany |party = Liberal |spouse = Rosetta Baume |relations = Eric Baume (son)<br />Arthur Myers (cousin) |children = 4 |alma_mater = Otago University<br />Auckland University |occupation = |profession = Lawyer }}
'''Frederick Ehrenfried Baume''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KC}} (13 June 1862 – 14 May 1910) was a New Zealand lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party.
==Biography== ===Early life=== Baume was born "Friedrich Baume" in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1862. His parents were Joseph Baume and Emilie Ehrenfried, Joseph was a photographer by trade.<ref name="DNZB Baume">{{DNZB|last=Rogers|first=Frank|id=2b11|title=Frederick Ehrenfried Baume|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref> Between 1877 and 1883, Baume pursued careers in both commerce and journalism before studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and graduated with a Bachelor of Law in 1891.<ref name="DNZB Baume"/> In 1896 he established a legal practice with A. E. Whitaker, a son of Frederick Whitaker.
===Political career=== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1902}} |end = 1905 |term = 15th |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|City of Auckland}} |party = New Zealand Liberal Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1905}} |end = 1908 |term = 16th |electorate = Auckland East |party = New Zealand Liberal Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1908}} |end = 1910 |term = 17th |electorate = Auckland East |party = New Zealand Liberal Party }} {{End}} Upon moving to Auckland, Baume became a prominent figure there and soon entered the political arena. He became a member of the Auckland City Council as well as the Auckland Harbour Board.<ref name="DNZB Baume"/>
From 1902 to 1905 he was one of the three Members of Parliament representing the multi-member City of Auckland electorate.<ref name="Wilson">{{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 |page=183}}</ref>
Before 1905, he had been associated with the New Liberal Party group, which disappeared after 1905.
In 1905, the multi-member electorates were split up, and he won the newly created Auckland East electorate.<ref name="Wilson" /> Baume was later considered for membership of Joseph Ward's first cabinet in 1906, however he was passed over due to his connections with the liquor trade.<ref name="DNZB Baume"/>
Baume's health began to deteriorate and in 1909 he suffered a serious heart attack where the premature announcement of his death was reported.<ref name="DNZB Baume"/> His health was to never fully recover and resigned in 1910 citing ill-health but died in Bad Nauheim, Germany, before the resulting by-election was held. He was succeeded in the Auckland East electorate by his cousin Arthur Myers.<ref name="DNZB Myers">{{DNZB|last=Stone|first=R. C. J. |id=3m66|title=Myers, Arthur Mielziner – Biography|accessdate=29 April 2012}}</ref>
==Family== On 21 June 1899 Baume married Rosetta Lulah Leavy in San Francisco. She was a university graduate and had been one of the first female high school teachers in the United States. Later, Rosetta became the first woman candidate for Parliament in New Zealand, standing for the Liberal Party for the seat of Parnell in 1919.<ref>{{cite book |first1=J. |last1=Hislop |title=The General Election, 1919 |url= https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1921-I-II.2.3.2.45 |publisher=National Library |access-date=6 December 2014 |pages=1–6 | year=1921}}</ref> In 1921 she remarried to Edward William Kane, clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives and died in Wellington on 22 February 1934.<ref name="DNZB Baume"/> Frederick Baume and Rosetta had four sons: Frederick (Eric), Neville, Alan and Sidney. Eric Baume later became well known in Australia as a journalist, broadcaster and novelist.<ref name="DNZB Baume"/> Their grandson Peter Baume was an Australian senator.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://biography.senate.gov.au/baume-peter-erne/|title=Baume, Peter Erne (1935– )|work=The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate|year=2017|first=Clive|last=Beauchamp}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|nz}} {{s-bef | before = William Napier<br />George Fowlds<br />Joseph Witheford}} {{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for City of Auckland | years=1902–1905 | alongside = Joseph Witheford, Alfred Kidd}} {{s-non | reason = Constituency abolished}} |- {{s-vac|reason=Constituency recreated after abolition in 1887|last=George Grey}} {{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Auckland East | years=1905–1910}} {{s-aft | after = Arthur Myers}} {{end}}
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