New Zealand politician
Thomas Andrew Hemming Field (1859 – 27 October 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.
Early life and family.
Field was born in Long Gully, Colony of Victoria, in 1859, the son of Thomas Field, who had migrated from Ireland to Sydney in 1845. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1862, settling in Nelson, where Field attended Nelson College from 1871 to 1872. He married Jessie Black at Nelson on 24 May 1881, and they had two sons and two daughters. Their eldest son Arthur Nelson Field was a journalist and right-wing author.
In 1885, Field became one of the first cyclists to ride the length of New Zealand.
Wilkins and Field.
Field was managing director of Wilkins and Field Hardware in Nelson. The firm was founded by his father in 1866 in Westport, and became Wilkins and Field in 1880 when W.C. Wilkins joined the business in Nelson.