Peter Malone (mayor)
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Peter Malone CNZM OBE |
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| 24th Mayor of Nelson | |
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In office 1980–1992 |
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| Preceded by | Roy McLennan |
| Succeeded by | Philip Woollaston |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Peter Heywood Malone 22 March 1928 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Died | 5 March 2006 (aged 77) Nelson, New Zealand |
| Relations |
Robert Trimble (great-grandfather) Abel Heywood (great-great-grandfather) William Malone (great-uncle) Liam Malone (grandson) |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Profession | Veterinary surgeon |
Peter Heywood Malone CNZM OBE (22 March 1928 – 5 March 2006) was a New Zealand veterinary surgeon and politician. He served as Mayor of Nelson from 1980 to 1992.
Malone was born in Dunedin on 22 March 1928. He was the son of Robert Austin Malone and Helen Fergusson (née Minnis). He was married twice: first to Cynthia Bevis Jones; and in 1971 to Patricia Joan Knapp. He had five sons from his first marriage.
Malone was the great-grandson of Robert Trimble, a 19th-century member of the New Zealand Parliament, and the great-great-grandson of Abel Heywood, who served as two separate terms as mayor of Manchester in the 1860s and 1870s. Malone was also the great-nephew of Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone, who commanded the Wellington Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli. The athlete, Liam Malone, is Peter Malone's grandson.
Malone was educated at Wellington College from 1941 to 1944,Victoria University of Wellington (1946–1947), the University of Otago (1948) and the University of Sydney. He graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science.
From 1952 to 1957 Malone worked as a veterinary surgeon in Brightwater near Nelson, and from 1957 to 1986 in Nelson. He also served on the New Zealand Hydatids Council and took particular interest in bovine tuberculosis.
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