Richmond Hursthouse: Difference between revisions

| 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 RobertRichmond (politician)|Henry Richmond]] (cousin)<br>[[James Crowe Richmond]] (cousin)<br>[[William Richmond (politician)|William Richmond]] (cousin)<br>[[Jane Maria Atkinson]] (cousin)

Hursthouse was born in New Plymouth in 1845, soon after his family's emigration from England.<ref name="DNZB1940 Hursthouse">{{cite book | ref = harv | 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 = 18 February 2016 | pages=422f}}</ref> His parents were John Hursthouse (1811–1860) and Helen, née Wilson (1803–1895). His parents and other family members (his father's brother, [[Charles Flinders Hursthouse]], 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 web |title=Thomas Sparks |url=http://www.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/early-settlers/voyageDetails.aspx?voyageId=19 |publisher=Nelson Provincial Museum |accessdateaccess-date=18 February 2016 |deadurlurl-status=yes dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301104740/http://www.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/early-settlers/voyageDetails.aspx?voyageId=19 |archivedatearchive-date=1 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=New Zealand Gazette |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZGWS18430201.2.5 |accessdateaccess-date=18 February 2016 |work=New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator |volume=III |issue=216 |date=1 February 1843 |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" />

|start = [[1875–1876 New Zealand general election, 1875–76|1876]]<!-- election held on 6 January 1876 -->

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]].{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=207}} In 1884, he held the portfolio of Minister for Lands and Immigration during the brief [[Atkinson Ministry, 1884|fourth Atkinson Ministry]].{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=70}}<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 |date= |website= |publisher=New Plymouth District Council |accessdateaccess-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 |origyearorig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}

[[Category:Mayors of places in New ZealandMotueka]]

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