Irving Hetherington Carruthers (27 October 1884 – 5 July 1974) was a Western Samoan businessman and politician.

Biography

Carruthers was born in Samoa in 1884, one of five children of Richard and Matua Carruthers. His father was a Scottish solicitor who had immigrated to Samoa from

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Pacific Islands Monthly, December 1935, p31 He became a member of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters Association. Carruthers married Anne Jennings from

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and had five children. Anne died in the early 1900s. Carruthers later married Vaopunimatagi Seumanautafa in 1919. After his second wife died, he married Moe in 1934, with whom he had three children. In 1929 he established I.H. Carruthers, a cocoa and copra merchant company. The business was later renamed Eveni Carruthers.Our Story
Eveni Pacific Carruthers contested the

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to the

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with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association. He was elected alongside his brother-in-law Alan Cobcroft. He was re-elected in

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, but did not stand in the

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.Western Samoa Legislative Council
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'', 21 December 1938

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carruthers, Irving 1884 births 20th-century Samoan businesspeople Members of the Legislative Council of Samoa 1974 deaths