John Stallworthy

John Stallworthy (1854 – 10 November 1923) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was a teacher, newspaper editor, and sawmiller's trade union leader.

Biography He was born in the Samoan Islands in 1854; his father George was a member of the London Missionary Society. He retired from teaching in 1890 to concentrate on his newspaper. He started the Aratapu Gazette in 1884, and took over the Kopuru Bell in 1890 and changed its name to Wairoa Bell, and later purchased the Northern Advertiser and combined the papers to become the Wairoa Bell and Northern Advertiser.

He won the electorate in the , and held it to , when he was defeated by the then Independent Liberal (later Reform) candidate Gordon Coates. Shortly after leaving parliament, he became blind, but this did not stop his activities, and he learned to use a typewriter for correspondence. He was survived by his wife, four sons, and four daughters.