Edmund Barff (5 March 1833 – 29 June 1882) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the West Coast, New Zealand.
Barff was born in the English county of Kent[1] on 5 March 1833, probably at Lee (now part of Greater London), where he was baptised five months later.
[3] The West Coast was initially part of the Canterbury Province and following a requisition in October 1865,[4] he was first elected as the member of the West Coast Goldfields electorate in the following month.
[5] Barff and Evan Prosser, who was elected at the same time, were the first members from the West Coast on the Canterbury Provincial Council.
[8] He did not join the Westland Provincial Council,[9] but stood for the first election in January 1874 as one of three candidates in the two-member Arahura electorate (incorrectly referred to as 'Waimea' in some sources).