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John Richard Jones

John Richard Jones

New Zealand politician

John Richard Jones (died 4 May 1911) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Otago, New Zealand.

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Jones was the eldest son of Johnny Jones, a ship owner from Sydney and one of the earliest pioneers in Otago, where he bought a whaling station near Waikouaiti in 1838.[1] On 23 October 1855, Jones Jr. married Mary Orbell, the fourth daughter of John Orbell of Hawkesbury.[2]

Jones represented the Hampden electorate from 1862 to 1863, when he resigned.[3] He died on 4 May 1911.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Scholefield 1940, pp. 442–444.
  2. [2]
    "1855 BDMs from the Otago Witness". Rootsweb. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  3. [3]
    Wilson 1985, p. 209.
  4. [4]
    Scholefield 1940, p. 444.

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