Arthur Samuel Atkinson (20 October 1833 – 10 December 1902) was a 19th-century

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

from the

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, New Zealand.

Biography

He represented the 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 Sir Harry Albert Atkinson (1 November 1831 – 28 June 1892) served as the tenth premier of New Zealand on four separate occasions in the late 19th century, and was Colonial Treasurer for a total of ten years. He was responsible for guiding ...

, 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 The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several c ...

, languages and natural sciences. He died at Fairfield, the house that he had built in 1872.

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1833 births 1902 deaths New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family 19th-century New Zealand politicians 19th-century New Zealand lawyers New Zealand naturalists Fell family {{NewZealand-law-bio-stub