George Vesey Stewart

George Vesey Stewart (1832–1920) was a New Zealand farmer, coloniser and local politician.

Four candidates were nominated: George Morris, who had previously represented the East Coast electorate; Stewart, then the owner of the Bay of Plenty Times; William Kelly, who had also previously represented the East Coast electorate; and Henry Thomas Rowe, a surveyor and commission agent.

[6] Stewart stood for the Tauranga mayoralty a few months later and was elected the town's first mayor.

[1] Stewart stood in the 1893 election in the Bay of Plenty electorate as an independent and came a distant fourth.

[7] His brother's wife was Adela Blanche Stewart, who wrote the book My Simple Life in New Zealand.