Richard Oliver (New Zealand politician)

Richard Oliver (21 February 1830[1] – 27 November 1910) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

[1] Oliver represented the City of Dunedin electorate from 1878 to 1881, when he retired (to England).

[1][2] He was included in the Frederick Whitaker Government as a member of the Executive Council till September 1883, when on a second reconstruction he became Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Electric Telegraphs under Major (later Sir) Harry Atkinson, retiring, with the rest of his colleagues, in August 1884.

Leonard Courtney, M.P., Chairman of Committees, House of Commons.

He was recovering from a road accident twelve months age, but died early on the morning of Sunday 27 November; although the news took several days to reach New Zealand by telegraph.