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Francis Duncan (Frank) O'Flynn (24 October 1918 – 18 October 2003) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. ==Biography== O'Flynn was born in Greymouth in 1918. He was the son of Francis Edward O’Flynn and Margaret Helen Valentine Duncan. He received his education at Christchurch Normal School and Christchurch Boys' High School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://my.lawsociety.org.nz/in_practice/people/obituaries/obituaries_list/frank_oflynn_qc,_1919_2003 )〕 On leaving school he was employed as a clerk by the Education Department in Wellington and attended Victoria University College part-time. In 1939 he became a clerk to the Wellington Labourers’ Union Secretary and completed a BA in 1940. Further study was interrupted by the Second World War and he joined the RNZAF in 1942, serving in the Pacific and attaining the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He married Sylvia Elizabeth Hefford in 1942 and they had four children: Maeve, Terence, Rosaleen and Brigid. At the end of the war Frank O’Flynn was employed as a law clerk in the Wellington firm O’Regan and Arndt. He continued to study law and completed an LLB in 1947 and LLM in 1948. Leaving O’Regan and Arndt in 1954, he practised in Wellington as a barrister and solicitor until 1968 when he was made a Queen’s Counsel and practised as such until 1972. As one of New Zealand’s most prominent QCs, O’Flynn was renowned for his advocacy and willingness to take on the establishment of the time. His reputation as one of New Zealand’s leading advocates in the 1950s and 1960s was enhanced when he represented 126 survivors and families of victims in the Wahine ferry disaster inquiry held in June 1968. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1968. O’Flynn was also the first (and only) lawyer to sue National Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon successfully on behalf of a client – Mr Muldoon (as he was then) was forced to pay out $5,000 for defaming Mr O’Flynn’s client Brian Brooks (who later became a Professor of Law at Victoria University). He represented the seat of Kapiti from 1972 to 1975, when he was defeated, and then Island Bay from 1978 to 1987, when he retired due to ill health. He was the Minister of Defence from 1984 to 1987.He was promoted to the Privy Council in 1987; however, that same ill-health prevented him from travelling to England to be sworn in to the Council by Queen Elizabeth II. O’Flynn died on 18 October 2003 aged 84. 〔granddaughter Dr Tracey O'Flynn, 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank O'Flynn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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