Richmond Hursthouse

Richmond Hursthouse (5 May 1845 – 11 November 1902) was a New Zealand soldier and politician.

Early and personal life Hursthouse was born in New Plymouth, on 5 May 1845, soon after his family's emigration from England. His parents were John Hursthouse (1811–1860) and Helen, née Wilson (1803–1895). His parents and other family members (his father's brother, Charles Flinders Hursthouse, and a cousin, Thomas Newsham, and their families) came to New Zealand on the Thomas Sparks; they arrived in Wellington in early 1843. John Hursthouse and family proceeded to New Plymouth, but the outbreak of the First Taranaki War saw the family move to Nelson. Richmond Hursthouse's education was restricted to one year at Nelson's Bishop's School. Motueka in 1896, and for the City of Nelson electorate in 1893 and 1899, and came second each time.

When Motueka became a borough council in 1900, he was the town's first mayor.

Hursthouse died in New Plymouth, on 11 November 1902, aged 57, after falling ill with pneumonia while campaigning for the Egmont electorate.