– 11 February 1878), casually referred to as Barney Rhodes, was a New Zealand landowner, pastoralist, businessman and politician.

Nevertheless, he used these talents to make himself a rich man and with his three brothers all four became major landowners and pastoralists in the North and in the South Island.

During that time he arranged A B Smith and Co of Sydney to be his (stock and station) agents to look after his entire property in the colony of New South Wales.

[5] In late 1839, in partnership with the mercantile firm of Daniel Cooper and James Holt, he went back to New Zealand to acquire land for cattle runs and set up trading stations.

Later, along with his younger brothers, their South Island estates stretched from Banks Peninsula to Otago.

With similar holdings in the Hawkes Bay – East Coast regions they together controlled, by the 1850s, in excess of 300,000 acres.

[9] Rhodes bought his Wellington sheep run from the original holders in 1849 and in 1865 built the driveway now known as Wadestown Road for access to his new house there, The Grange.

After his widow's death it became the residence of Sir Harold Beauchamp, father of Katherine Mansfield[13] and, in stages, the former sheep run was subdivided into sites for houses.

He was then elected to the 1st New Zealand Parliament as the representative for the Wellington Country seat, covering Miramar, Mākara, Porirua, the Kāpiti Coast and Horowhenua, from 1853 to 1855.

She lost her case in the New Zealand Supreme Court but she was awarded £750,000[note 3] on appeal to the Privy Council.

Mary Rhodes Moorhouse-Pekkala was married to the Finnish Socialist politician Eino Pekkala.

Three brothers followed him to New Zealand; Robert Heaton (1815–1884) of Christchurch, George (1816–1864) of Timaru and Joseph (1826–1905) of Clive, Hawkes Bay.