About Francis Rich
Lived 1828 – 1901 (aged 72–73). Francis Rich was a New Zealand politician and farmer.
Francis Dyer Rich (1828 – 5 December 1901) was a 19th-century Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Otago, New Zealand.
Rich represented the Waikouaiti electorate from the to 30 December 1870 when he retired.
He stood unsuccessfully for the electorate in
He was an early settler in Auckland, then moving to Canterbury. He died at his family home Woodstock, Orariore near Cambridge and the Piako Swamp in the Waikato.
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New Zealand politician
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Francis Rich was born in 1828.
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Francis Rich died in 1901.
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Francis Rich was a politician and farmer.
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Francis Rich was New Zealand.
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