Arthur Samuel Atkinson (20 October 1833 – 10 December 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the

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, New Zealand.

Biography

He represented the

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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 Prime Minister of New Zealand, premier of New Zealand on four separate occasions in the late 19th century, and was Minister of Finance (New Zealand), Colonial Tr ...

, and part of the

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–Atkinson family. He married Jane Maria Richmond in 1854. He later moved to Nelson, and became a lawyer. He studied

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, 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