John Richard Jones

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1862–1863	3rd	Hampden		Independent

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

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

References

• Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1940). A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L (PDF). I. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.