Hugh Sutherland Valentine (22 August 1848 – 10 September 1932) was a 19th-century independent conservative Member of Parliament in

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, New Zealand. Born in

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, Hugh Valentine represented the Waikaia electorate from

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to 1890, and then the Tuapeka electorate from

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to 1893, when he retired. He later unsuccessfully contested the Wallace electorate for the Conservatives in the

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coming third of five candidates behind two Liberals, the winner

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and the Rev. Thomas Neave. Valentine did finish ahead of fellow Conservative

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and Liberal

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. After that, he retired from politics. Valentine eventually became General Manager of the New Zealand Agricultural Company and ran an auction house. Valentine was a Captain in the Gore Rifles, and was also a lifefellow of

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, the

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, and the

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. Valentine died in

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on 10 September 1932, and he was buried in

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Cemetery.

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