Arthur Samuel Atkinson (20 October 1833 – 10 December 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Taranaki Region, New Zealand.
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
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1866–1867 | 4th | Omata | Independent |
He represented the Omata electorate from the 1866 election to 1867, when he resigned.[1]
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.[2] 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.[2][3]