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{{Short description|New Zealand politician}}
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| name = Richmond Hursthouse
| image = Richmond Hursthouse, ca 1876.jpg
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| caption = Richmond Hursthouse in {{circa}} 1876
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1845|05|05|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[New Plymouth]], New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1902|11|11|1845|05|05|df=y}}
| death_place = [[New Plymouth]], New Zealand
| nationalityother_names = New Zealand
 
| other_names =
|constituency_MP7 = [[Motueka (New Zealand electorate)|Motueka]]
|parliament7 = New Zealand
|term_start7 = 6 January 1876
|term_end7 = 15 July 1887
|predecessor7 = [[Charles Parker (New Zealand politician)|Charles Parker]]
|successor7 = [[John Kerr (Nelson politician)|John Kerr]]
 
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| relations = [[Charles Wilson Hursthouse]] (brother)<br>[[Torchy Atkinson]] (grandson)<br>{{nowrap|[[Rosalind Hursthouse]] (great-granddaughter)}}<br>[[Rangimarie Hetet]] (niece)<br>[[Kae Miller]] (granddaughter)<br>[[Percy Smith (ethnologist)|Percy Smith]] (cousin)<br>[[Henry Richmond (politician)|Henry Richmond]] (cousin)<br>[[James Crowe Richmond]] (cousin)<br>[[William Richmond (politician)|William Richmond]] (cousin)<br>[[Jane Maria Atkinson]] (cousin)
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'''Richmond Hursthouse''' (5 May 1845 – 11 November 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]], New Zealand, and a cabinet minister.<ref name="obit">{{cite news| url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TH19021112.2.12| title=Obituary. Death of Mr Richmond Hursthouse| date=12 November 1902| publisher=Taranaki Herald| page=4}}</ref>
 
==Family life==
Hursthouse was born in New Plymouth in 1845, thesoon sonafter ofhis Johnfamily's Hursthouseemigration from England.<ref name="DNZB1940 Hursthouse">{{cite book | pages=422f |editor-last = Scholefield | editor-first = Guy | editor-link = Guy Scholefield | title = A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L | volume = I | year = 1940 | publisher = [[Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand)|Department of Internal Affairs]] | location = Wellington | url = httphttps://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf | accessdateaccess-date = 618 OctoberFebruary 20132016 | pages=422f}}</ref> His mother,parents Helenwere John Hursthouse (1811–1860) and Helen, née Wilson (1803–1895),. wasHis theparents auntand ofother family members (his father's brother, [[JamesCharles CroweFlinders RichmondHursthouse]], and a cousin, Thomas Newsham, and their families) came to New Zealand on the ''Thomas Sparks''; they arrived in [[Wellington]] in early 1843.<ref>{{cite nameweb |title="DNZBThomas JCSparks Richmond"|url=http://www.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/early-settlers/voyageDetails.aspx?voyageId=19 |publisher=Nelson Provincial Museum |access-date=18 February 2016 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301104740/http://www.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/early-settlers/voyageDetails.aspx?voyageId=19 |archive-date=1 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{DNZBcite news |Olivertitle=New Zealand Gazette |Wurl=http://paperspast. Hnatlib. govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZGWS18430201.2.5 Porter,|access-date=18 FrancesFebruary 2016 |1R10work=New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator |Richmond,volume=III James|issue=216 Crowe|25date=1 NovemberFebruary 20101843 |page=2}}</ref> John Hursthouse and family proceeded to [[New Plymouth]], but the outbreak of the [[First Taranaki War]] saw the family move to [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]]. Richmond Hursthouse's education was restricted to one year at Nelson's Bishop's School.<ref name="DNZB1940 Hursthouse" />
 
In 1873, he married Mary Fearon, the daughter of Edward Fearon. She died in September 1901.<ref name="DNZB1940 Hursthouse" />
 
==Activities==
Hursthouse died in New Plymouth on 11 November 1902, after falling ill with pneumonia while campaigning for the Egmont electorate.<ref name="obit" />
Aged 19, he helped with the survey of [[Westport, New Zealand|Westport]]. Afterwards, he returned to New Plymouth and was in the militia. He participated in various gold rushes, including [[Thames, New Zealand|Thames]], [[Gulgong]] in [[New South Wales]], and [[Coromandel, New Zealand|Coromandel]].<ref name="DNZB1940 Hursthouse" />
 
==Political career==
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Hursthouse represented the [[Motueka (New Zealand electorate)|Motueka]] electorate from [[1875–1876 New Zealand general election, 1875–76|1876]] to [[1887 New Zealand general election, 1887|1887]].<ref>{{cite book sfn|last= Wilson |first= James Oakley 1985|titlep=207}} NewIn Zealand1884, Parliamentaryhe Record,held 1840–1984the |edition=portfolio 4thof |origyear=Minister Firstfor ed.Lands publishedand 1913Immigration |year=during 1985the |publisher=brief V.R.[[Atkinson WardMinistry, Govt. Printer 1884|location=fourth WellingtonAtkinson Ministry]].{{sfn|oclc=154283103 Wilson|page1985|p=20770}}</ref> During this period, he briefly held the portfolio of Minister for Lands.<ref name="obit" />
 
For many years, he was a member of the Nelson Land Board and of the Nelson Education Board.<ref name="obit" />
 
He stood for [[Waimea-Picton]] in [[1890 New Zealand general election, 1890|1890]],<ref name="1890 Waimea-Picton">{{cite news |title=Waimea-Picton |url= httphttps://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TC18901208.2.9.1 |accessdateaccess-date=25 July 2011 |newspaperwork=Colonist |date=8 December 1890 |volume=XXXIV |issue=5980 |page=3}}</ref> Motueka in [[1896 New Zealand general election, 1896|1896]], and for the [[Nelson (New Zealand electorate)|City of Nelson]] electorate in [[1893 New Zealand general election, 1893|1893]]<ref name="1893 Nelson election">{{cite news |title=Nelson City |url= httphttps://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NEM18931129.2.7 |accessdateaccess-date=21 July 2011 |newspaperwork=[[Nelson Evening Mail]] |date=29 November 1893 |volume=XXVII |issue=281 |page=2}}</ref> and [[1899 New Zealand general election, 1899|1899]],<ref>{{cite web |url= httphttps://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1900-I.2.3.2.54 |title=The General Election, 1899 |date=19 June 1900 |publisher= Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives |page=2 |accessdateaccess-date=12 February 2014 |location=Wellington}}</ref> and came second each time.
 
When [[Motueka]] became a borough council in 1899, he was the town's first mayor.<ref name="NZETC Motueka">{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts |year=1906 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc05Cycl-t1-body1-d1-d2-d48.html |publisher=[[The Cyclopedia of New Zealand]] |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |accessdateaccess-date= 16 November 2013 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Motueka |page=229}}</ref>
 
Hursthouse died in New Plymouth on 11 November 1902, after falling ill with pneumonia while campaigning for the Egmont electorate.<ref name="obit" /> He was buried at [[Te Henui Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newplymouthnz.com/CouncilAtoZ/CemeteriesAndCrematorium/CemeterySearch.htm |title=Cemetery search |publisher=New Plymouth District Council |access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref>
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* {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}
 
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