Richard Reeves (New Zealand)

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The Hon. Richard Harman Jeffares Reeves MLC (1836 – 1 June 1910) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.

He was born in County Wexford, Ireland. He was on the Canterbury Provincial Council in 1866. He represented the Grey Valley electorate in Parliament from 1878 to 1881. He was defeated for the Inangahua electorate in 1881, but won it in 1887. In 1893 he resigned as he was adjudged bankrupt.

He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1895, and was reappointed in 1902. He was Acting Speaker in 1905.

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  • Who’s Who in New Zealand (1st edition, 1908)
  • Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1940)
  • New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
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