Horace Herring

Horace Edgar Herring (1884 – 9 January 1962) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Mid-Canterbury.

Horace Herring represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate for the Labour Party between 1935 and 1938.

[1][2] He was a supporter of John A. Lee and stood as a Democratic Labour Party candidate at the 1943 Christchurch East by-election, which was won by Mabel Howard.

Horace Herring received a very creditable 2,578 votes; 26.7% of the total cast.

[3][4] Labour MP Ormond Wilson, described Herring as "a character only Dickens could have invented".