title: Cuthbert Cowan
text: # Cuthbert Cowan
  
  Cuthbert Cowan (1835 – 4 April 1927) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Southland, New Zealand.
  
  ## Biography
  
  ### Political career
  
  Cowan represented the Wallace electorate in 1869, but he resigned after only three months, and then the Hokonui electorate from 1884 to 1890, when he retired. He unsuccessfully contested the Awarua electorate in both the 1896 general election and the 1897 by-election against Joseph Ward.
  
  ### Death
  
  He died on 4 April 1927 in Invercargill aged 92.
  
  