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 a 1878 by-election to 1881. He was defeated for the Inangahua electorate in 1881 general election, but won that electorate in 1887. He resigned on 26 April 1893 as he had been adjudged bankrupt.[1]
He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1895, and was reappointed in 1902. He was Acting Speaker in 1905.
Reeves was a brother of Charles Stephen Reeves, who was Mayor of Dunedin in 1876.
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| Preceded by Andrew Agnew Stuart Menteath |
Member of Parliament for Inangahua 1887–1893 |
Succeeded by Robert Stout |