Arthur Atkinson (politician, born 1833)
# Arthur Atkinson (politician, born 1833)

Arthur Samuel Atkinson (20 October 1833 – 10 December 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Taranaki Region, New Zealand.

## Biography

He represented the Omata electorate from the 1866 election to 1867, when he resigned.

He had not been elected for Omata in the 1865 by-election.

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.

