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Biography: Seddon, Richard John

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Bibliography

Brooking, Tom. Richard Seddon: king of god's own: the life and times of New Zealand's longest-serving prime minister. Auckland, 2014

Burdon, R. M. King Dick. Christchurch, 1955

Drummond, J. The life and work of Richard John Seddon, premier of New Zealand, 1893–1906. Christchurch, 1906

Hamer, D. The New Zealand Liberals. Auckland, 1988

Lockwood, J. 'Politics and personality: Seddon and his electorates, 1879–90'. In Miners and militants. Ed. P. R. May. Christchurch, 1975

Seddon, T. E. Y. The Seddons. Auckland, 1968

Seddon family. Papers, 1850–1971. MS Papers 1619. WTU

How to cite this page

David Hamer. 'Seddon, Richard John', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/128432/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).