Arthur Samuel Atkinson | |
Birth Date: | 20 October 1833 |
Death Place: | Fairfield, Nelson, New Zealand |
Nationality: | New Zealand |
Occupation: | Politician, Lawyer, Naturalist |
Office1: | Member of Parliament for Omata |
Term Start1: | 1866 |
Term End1: | 1867 |
Predecessor1: | Francis Gledhill |
Successor1: | Charles Brown |
Party: | Independent |
Spouse: | Jane Maria Richmond |
Relations: | Harry Atkinson (brother) |
Arthur Samuel Atkinson (20 October 1833 – 10 December 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Taranaki Region, New Zealand.
He represented the Omata electorate from the to 1867, when he resigned.[1]
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.