Hugh Lusk
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| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1876–1878 | 6th | Franklin | Independent | |
Hugh Hart Lusk (1837 – 8 September 1926)[1] was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Auckland Region in New Zealand.
A barrister and solicitor, he represented the Franklin electorate from 18th of January 1876 to 16th of April 1878, when he resigned.[2]
Works[]
Lusk wrote under the pseudonym Owen Hall. His works include:
- The Track of a Storm (1895) a convict novel
- Eureka (1899), one of the earliest Australian science-fiction novels,
- Jetsam (1897)
- Hernando (1902)
Under his own name, Lusk wrote books on social welfare in New Zealand and compiled History of Australia for Schools (Sydney, 1891).
References[]
- ^ Auckland Star, 8th of September 1926, p. 8.
- ^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 213. OCLC 154283103.
External links[]
- Works by or about Hugh Lusk at Internet Archive
- Read Chapter 1 of Eureka from the Lost Worlds Australia Anthology.
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