John Richard Jones (died 4 May 1911) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in

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, New Zealand. Jones was the eldest son of Johnny Jones, a ship owner from

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and one of the earliest pioneers in Otago, where he bought a whaling station near

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in 1838. On 23 October 1855, Jones Jr. married Mary Orbell, the fourth daughter of John Orbell of

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. Jones represented the Hampden electorate from 1862 to 1863, when he resigned. He died on 4 May 1911.

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