Arthur Samuel Atkinson


Arthur Samuel Atkinson was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Taranaki Region, New Zealand.

Biography

He represented the Omata electorate from the to 1867, when he resigned.
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 the Māori race and language. He died at Fairfield, the house that he had built in 1872.