Richard Monk
Richard Monk was a Member of Parliament in New Zealand.Biography
Richard Monk was born in Lancashire, England, and relocated to Hokianga with his parents at a young age. He was educated in California, and returned to New Zealand to work in the timber industry.
He died at his home in Woodhill on 2 May 1912, and was interred at Symonds Street Cemetery.He represented the Waitemata electorate from the 1886 by-election after the death of William John Hurst to 1890 when he was defeated by Jackson Palmer; then from 1893 to 9 February 1894 when his election was declared void. He won the electorate again in 1896, and retired in 1902.
