1st New Zealand Parliament
Initial composition of the 1st Parliament
Table:
Member	Electorate	Province	Election date

William Moorhouse	Akaroa	Canterbury	24 August

Thomas Bartley	Auckland City of Auckland	Auckland	11 August

Loughlin O'Brien	Auckland City of Auckland	Auckland	11 August

James O'Neill	Auckland City of Auckland	Auckland	11 August

Frederick Merriman	Suburbs of Auckland	Auckland	10 August

William Porter	Suburbs of Auckland	Auckland	10 August

Hugh Carleton	Bay of Islands	Auckland	14 July

James Stuart-Wortley	Christchurch Country	Canterbury	27 August

Jerningham Wakefield	Christchurch Country	Canterbury	27 August

Henry Sewell	Christchurch Town of Christchurch	Canterbury	20 August

John Cargill	Dunedin Country	Otago	1 October

William Cutten	Dunedin Country	Otago	1 October

James Macandrew	Dunedin Town of Dunedin	Otago	27 September

Thomas King	Grey and Bell	New Plymouth	27 August

Alfred Ludlam	Hutt	Wellington	18 August

Edward Gibbon Wakefield	Hutt	Wellington	19 August

James FitzGerald	Lyttelton Town of Lyttelton	Canterbury	17 August

Alfred Picard	Motueka and Massacre Bay	Nelson	18 August

James Mackay	Nelson Town of Nelson	Nelson	25 July

William Travers	Nelson Town of Nelson	Nelson	25 July

With reference to the accompanying table and the textual context listed.

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William Sefton Moorhouse ( c.1825 - 15 September 1881 ) was a British-born New Zealand politician . He was the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province .
Akaroa was a New Zealand electorate . It was located in on Banks Peninsula , in Canterbury , and named after the town of the same name . One of the original 24 electorates , it existed from 1853 to 1893 .
The Canterbury Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876 . Its capital was Christchurch .
Thomas Houghton Bartley JP ( 1798 - 25 December 1878 ) was a New Zealand politician .
Auckland ( or , more formally , City of Auckland ) was a New Zealand electorate . It covered the core of Auckland during the early days of New Zealand democracy , when the city was small enough to be covered by two or three seats .
The province covered roughly half of the North Island of New Zealand . It was the largest of the six initial provinces , both by area and population . The southern boundary was mostly along the 39th latitude , which was an arbitrary line , as the country 's interior was little known by Europeans . It was not subdivided during its existence ; the Taranaki Province ( originally named New Plymouth Province ) was the other one that kept its boundaries .
Loughlin O'Brien ( 23 November 1821 - 17 April 1901 ) , often spelled Laughlin O'Brien , was a New Zealand politician and judge .
The Honourable James O'Neill ( 1819-1882 ) was born in Manorhamilton , County Leitrim , Ireland . In Ireland , he trained as an apothecary but then emigrated to New Zealand , arriving in 1840 . There , he became a significant 19th century politician .
Frederick Ward Merriman ( 18 October 1818 - 21 July 1865 ) , generally called Frederick Merriman , was a 19th-century New Zealand politician .
Suburbs of Auckland was a parliamentary electorate in Auckland , New Zealand from 1853 to 1860 .
William Field Porter ( 24 January 1784 - 30 March 1869 ) was a ship owner from Liverpool , who migrated to South Australia in 1838 . He relocated to Auckland in 1841 , where he became a member of the New Zealand Parliament .
Hugh Francis Carleton ( 3 July 1810 - 14 July 1890 ) was New Zealand 's first member of parliament .
Bay of Islands is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate . It existed during various periods between 1853 and 1993 . It was thus one of the original 24 electoral districts , and New Zealand 's first ever MP was elected , although unopposed , in the Bay of Islands ; Hugh Carleton thus liked to be called the Father of the House .
James Frederick Stuart-Wortley JP ( 16 January 1833 - 27 November 1870 ) was a politician in New Zealand and the UK .
Christchurch Country was a parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand from 1853 to 1860 . It was thus one of the original 24 electorates used for the 1st New Zealand Parliament .
Edward Jerningham Wakefield ( 25 June 1820 - 3 March 1879 ) , known as Jerningham Wakefield , was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield . As such , he was closely associated with his father 's interest in colonisation . He worked for the New Zealand Company and later was a member of the Canterbury Association . He was active as a politician in New Zealand , both at national and provincial level , but became an alcoholic and died penniless in an old people 's home .
Henry Sewell ( 7 September 1807 - 14 May 1879 ) was a prominent 19th-century New Zealand politician . He was a notable campaigner for New Zealand self-government , and is generally regarded as having been the country 's first Premier ( an office that would later be titled Prime Minister ) , having led the Sewell Ministry in 1856 . He later served as Colonial Treasurer ( 1856-59 ) , as Attorney-General ( 1861-62 ) , and twice as Minister of Justice ( 1864-65 , 1869-72 ) .
Christchurch was a parliamentary electorate in Christchurch , New Zealand . It existed three times . Originally it was the Town of Christchurch from 1853 to 1860 . From the 1860-1861 election to the 1871 election , it existed as City of Christchurch . It then existed from the 1875-1876 election until the 1881 election . The last period was from the 1890 election to the 1905 election . Since the 1946 election , a similarly named electorate called Christchurch Central has been in existence . The historic electorate was represented by 21 members of parliament . For some of the time , it was represented by one member at a time . During other periods , it was one of the few three-member electorates in New Zealand .
John Cargill ( 1821 - 2 January 1898 ) was a New Zealand politician and runholder .
Dunedin Country was a parliamentary electorate in the rural area surrounding the city of Dunedin in Otago , New Zealand , from 1853 to 1860 . It was a two-member electorate and was represented by a total of five members of parliament .
The Otago Province was a province of New Zealand until the abolition of provincial government in 1876 . The capital of the province was Dunedin . Southland Province split from Otago in 1861 , but became part of the province again in 1870 .
William Henry Cutten ( 10 April 1822 - 30 June 1883 ) was a New Zealand politician from the Otago region .
James Macandrew ( 1819 ( ? ) - 25 February 1887 ) was a New Zealand ship-owner and politician . He served as a Member of Parliament from 1853 to 1887 and as the last Superintendent of Otago Province .
Dunedin or the City of Dunedin or the Town of Dunedin was a parliamentary electorate in the city of Dunedin in Otago , New Zealand . It was one of the original electorates created in 1853 and existed , with two breaks , until 1905 . It was the only New Zealand electorate that was created as a single-member , two-member and three member electorate .
Thomas King ( 21 November 1821 - 28 April 1893 ) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician . He served in the first two Parliaments , and was otherwise active in New Plymouth . He was one of the first settlers , coming out on the first ship to New Plymouth in 1841 .
Grey and Bell was a Taranaki electorate in the New Zealand Parliament from 1853 to 1881 .
For the current top-level subdivision of Taranaki in New Zealand , see Taranaki region
Alfred Ludlam ( 1810 - 8 November 1877 ) was a leading New Zealand politician , horticulturist and farmer who owned land at Wellington and in the Hutt Valley . A member of three of New Zealand 's four earliest parliaments , he was also a philanthropist and a founder of Wellington 's Botanic Garden .
Hutt was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate . It was one of the original electorates in 1853 and existed during two periods until 1978 . It was represented by 13 Members of Parliament .
The Wellington Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876 .
Edward Gibbon Wakefield ( 20 March 1796 - 16 May 1862 ) is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand ( where he later served as an MP ) . He also had some interests in Canada , being elected to Parliament but never taking up the seat . He was best known for his colonisation scheme , sometimes referred to as the Wakefield scheme , which aimed to populate the new Province South Australia with a workable combination of labourers , tradespeople , artisans and capital . The scheme was to be financed by the sale of land to the capitalists who would thereby support the other classes of emigrants . Despite being imprisoned for three years in 1827 for kidnapping a fifteen-year-old girl , he enjoyed a distinguished political career .
James Edward FitzGerald ( 4 March 1818 - 2 August 1896 ) was a New Zealand politician . According to some historians , he should be considered the country 's first Prime Minister , although a more conventional view is that neither he nor his successor ( Thomas Forsaith ) should properly be given that title . He was a notable campaigner for New Zealand self-governance . He was the first Superintendent of the Canterbury Province .
Lyttelton is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate . It existed from 1853 to 1890 , and again from 1893 to 1996 , when it was replaced by the Banks Peninsula electorate .
Alfred Christopher Picard ( 24 May 1824 - 17 September 1855 ) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician . Picard was born in London in 1824 . He arrived in New Zealand in 1848 with the Ajax and first settled in Nelson . By 1853 , he was living in Riwaka near Motueka , with his profession listed as solicitor . He married Mary Ann Askew on 10 July 1850 and they had two sons ; William Alfred and John Thomas . [ citation needed ]
Motueka and Massacre Bay was one of the original parliamentary electorates created for the 1st New Zealand Parliament . It existed from 1853 to 1860 and was represented by three Members of Parliament . In the 1860 electoral redistribution , the area was split in half , and the Motueka and Collingwood electorates were created from it .
Nelson Province was constituted in 1853 under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 , and originally covered the entire upper South Island , including all of present-day Buller , Kaikoura , Marlborough , and Tasman districts , along with Nelson City , Grey District north of the Grey River , and the Hurunui District north of the Hurunui River . It was reduced in size by the creation of Marlborough Province in November 1859 , then abolished in 1876 , along with all the provinces of New Zealand .
James Mackay ( 1804 - 29 May 1875 ) was a New Zealand politician . He was a member of the 1st New Zealand Parliament . He is remembered for the incident with Henry Sewell in Parliament in 1854 .
Nelson is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate , returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives of New Zealand . From 1853 to 1860 , the electorate was called Town of Nelson . From 1860 to 1881 , it was City of Nelson . The electorate is the only one that has continuously existed since the 1st Parliament in 1853 . The current MP for Nelson is Nick Smith of the National Party . He has held this position since 1996 .
William Thomas Locke Travers ( January 1819 - 23 April 1903 ) was a New Zealand lawyer , politician , explorer , and naturalist .