Hugh Joseph Finn (1847 – 18 December 1927) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Otago region of New Zealand.
He then attended the Jesuit College in Amiens, France, and finally the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School in Australia.
[1] He joined the practice of George Godfrey in Melbourne as a clerk and passed his law exam.
[9] He contested the 1879 election as a supporter of George Grey[10] against Henry Manders (the incumbent) and William Mason[11] (a prominent architect who had moved to Queenstown in 1876).
[15] The Dunedin Herald commented after the election that Wakatipu voters had had a difficult choice between the incumbent Manders ("he had cut such a sorry figure [in Parliament] before"), Mason (who was supported by large land owners, which kept people from obtaining land for farming) and Finn (who was in a serious dispute with Queenstown's Resident Magistrate before the election).