Brian Talboys
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The Right Honourable Sir Brian Talboys CH KCB AC |
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| 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
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In office 12 December 1975 – 4 March 1981 |
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| Prime Minister | Robert Muldoon |
| Preceded by | Bob Tizard |
| Succeeded by | Duncan MacIntyre |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Wallace |
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In office 1957 – 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Macdonald |
| Succeeded by | Derek Angus |
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7 June 1921 Wanganui, New Zealand |
| Died | 3 June 2012 (aged 90) Invercargill, New Zealand |
| Political party | National |
Sir Brian Edward Talboys CH KCB AC PC (7 June 1921 – 3 June 2012) was a New Zealand politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against Muldoon had been successful, Talboys would have become Prime Minister himself.
Talboys was born in Wanganui on 7 June 1921. He attended primary school in Wanganui and Wanganui Collegiate School, but then travelled to Canada to study at the University of Manitoba. He later returned to New Zealand and studied at Victoria University of Wellington, gaining a BA. For the next few years, he worked for a stock and station agents' company, and then gained a position as assistant editor of a farming newspaper. In World War II, Talboys served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. After the war, Talboys settled in Southland as a farmer.
In the 1957 election, Talboys contested the Wallace electorate as the National Party candidate. He was successful, defeating a Labour Party challenger to succeed retiring National MP Tom Macdonald. He held the Wallace electorate for his entire parliamentary career, usually gaining an outright majority.
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