Henry Okey

Henry James Hobbs Okey (28 May 1857 – 13 September 1918) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

[1] His brothers included Edward Nelson Okey, who in 1880 won what later became known as the Ballinger Belt for the New Zealand champion shot.

[3] Okey was a member of the Taranaki County Council, and served as its chairman between 1896 and 1905.

[1] Okey contested the Taranaki electorate at the 1905 general election, coming second, 236 votes behind the incumbent, Edward Smith.

[6] Okey died in New Plymouth on 13 September 1918,[1] and was buried in Te Henui Cemetery.