Arthur O'Callaghan

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Arthur Pyne O'Callaghan (1 March 1837 – 17 December 1930) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Canterbury, New Zealand.

He was born in Fermoy, Ireland, on 1 March 1837.{{cite book |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |year=1903 |chapter=Land Tax And Advances To Settlers' Department |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Canterbury Provincial District |location=Christchurch |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d18-d7.html#name-420649-mention}}{{cite web |title=Cemetery records search |publisher=Tararua District Council |url=http://www.tararuadc.govt.nz/Living_Here/Community_Information/Cemeteries/Records_Search |access-date=11 January 2018}}

He represented the Lincoln electorate from {{NZ election link year|1881}} to 1888, when he resigned.{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=James Oakley |year=1985 |title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition=4th |orig-year=First ed. published 1913 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location=Wellington |page=224 |oclc=154283103}}

O'Callaghan died in Eketāhuna on 17 December 1930,{{cite news |title=Obituary: Mr A. P. O'Callaghan |newspaper=The Press |page=11 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19301218.2.88 |date=18 December 1930 |access-date=11 January 2018}} and was buried at Mangaoranga Eketāhuna Cemetery.