Richard Seddon - Death

Death

Seddon remained Prime Minister for 13 years, but gradually, calls for him to retire became more frequent. Various attempts to replace him with Joseph Ward met with failure. While on the Oswestry Grange ship returning from a trip to Australia, however, Seddon was suddenly taken ill, and died. News of his death provoked numerous public gestures of grief, which including black bordered displays in shop windows and several public monuments including a memorial Lamp Post outside the St Helens Hospital in Pitt Street Auckland. He was buried in Wellington's Bolton Street Memorial Park, with his grave being marked by a large monument.

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