Arthur Samuel Atkinson (20 October 1833 â 10 December 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Taranaki Region, New Zealand.
He represented the Omata electorate from the to 1867, when he resigned.
He had not been elected for in the .
He was a brother of Premier Harry Atkinson, and part of the RichmondâÂÂAtkinson family. He married Jane Maria Richmond in 1854.
He later moved to Nelson, and became a lawyer. He studied MÃÂori people, languages and natural sciences. He died at Fairfield, the house that he had built in 1872.