Arthur Atkinson (politician, born 1833)

Arthur Samuel Atkinson was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Taranaki Region, New Zealand.

Biography

He represented the Omata (New [Zealand electorate)|Omata] electorate from the to 1867, when he resigned.
He had not been elected for in the.
He was a brother of Premier Harry Atkinson, and part of the Richmond–Atkinson family. He married Jane Maria Richmond in 1854.
He later moved to Nelson, and became a lawyer. He studied Māori people, languages and natural sciences. He died at Fairfield, the house that he had built in 1872.