William Oldfield Cautley JP (1822 – 17 February 1864) was a New Zealand settler and politician.
[1] He was educated at Uppingham School from 1837 to 1840, where he was an exhibitioner on leaving,[2] and then matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in the Michaelmas term, 1840.
[1] However, in September 1841 he sailed from West India Docks on the Mary Ann, bound for the New Zealand Company's new settlement of Nelson, landing there on 8 February 1842.
[3] He began farming a property known as "Wensley Hill" at Waimea East (now called Richmond).
[7] In 1850, Cautley was appointed as a member of the short-lived Legislative Council of the province of New Munster.