Henry Dodson

Henry Dodson (21 April 1828 – 8 May 1892) was a brewer and a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Marlborough, New Zealand.

Biography

Dodson was born in 1828 near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England. Joseph Dodson was an older brother.

As a youth, he emigrated to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, to join a brother. Together, they went to Victoria, Australia and joined the Victorian gold rush. After that, he came to Nelson, New Zealand and joined his brother Joseph Dodson in his brewery business. He married Emma Snow (born 6 January 1830) on 10 December 1857 at Nelson. He came to Blenheim in the late 1850s and set up a brewery in that town. In , he beat the incumbent, Arthur Seymour. He was challenged by Joseph Ward in . In the , he was challenged by a former Mayor of Blenheim, George Henderson, and Sutherland John Macalister.

His wife died in June 1883. He died on 8 May 1892 at his home in Blenheim, New Zealand after a sudden illness and was survived by seven children.