John Richardson (New Zealand politician)

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Speaker of the Legislative Council
In office
1868–1879
Preceded byThomas Bartley
Succeeded byWilliam Fitzherbert
Personal details
Born(1810-08-04)4 August 1810
Bengal, India
Died6 December 1878(1878-12-06) (aged 68)
Dunedin, New Zealand
Political partyIndependent

Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson (4 August 1810 – 6 December 1878) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician, and a cabinet minister.

Military career

Richardson was born in

First Anglo-Sikh War.[1]

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1862
 3rd City of Dunedin Independent
1863–1866 3rd Dunedin and Suburbs North Independent
1866–1867 4th Town of New Plymouth Independent

He was Superintendent of Otago Province 1861–1862 at the start of the Otago Gold Rush.[2] He then represented several electorates in Parliament: City of Dunedin in 1862 (resigned), then Dunedin and Suburbs North from 1863 to 1866, then Town of New Plymouth from 1866 to 1867, when he resigned.

He was then appointed to the

Speaker
from 1868 to 1879. He was knighted in 1874.

Richardson worked with Learmonth White Dalrymple to establish a girls' high school in Dunedin, and for women to be admitted as students of the University of Otago.[3]

University of Otago

Richardson was an inaugural member of the council of the University of Otago in 1869, becoming the university's Chancellor in 1871, and was also a member of the New Zealand University Council. He was responsible for allowing women to enroll at the university and helped to remove barriers for their entry. This allowed the university to be the first in Australasia to enroll women.[4] The University of Otago's tallest building, the Richardson Building, is named in his honour. Richardson's granddaughter, Josephine Gordon Rich, studied with Thomas Jefferson Parker at the university, and published a scientific paper, but does not appear in student lists, probably because her home-schooling made her ineligible to enrol.[5]

Richardson died at Dunedin on 6 December 1878[1] and was buried at Dunedin Northern Cemetery.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Trotter, Olive. "Richardson, John Larkins Cheese". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  2. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u50136
  3. ^ Page, Dorothy. "Learmonth White Dalrymple". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  4. ^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Richardson, John Larkins Cheese". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  5. Wikidata Q105329564
    .
  6. ^ "Funeral Notice". Evening Star. No. 4921. 9 December 1878. p. 2. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  • Morrell, W.P. (1969) The University of Otago: A centennial history. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer.
    OCLC 154283103
    .
Political offices
Preceded by Superintendent of Otago Province
1861–1863 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Postmaster-General
1864–1865 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Speaker of the New Zealand Legislative Council

1868–1879 		Succeeded by
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for City of Dunedin
1862
Served alongside: Thomas Dick 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Town of New Plymouth
1866–1867 		Succeeded by
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