CAUTLEY, WILLIAM OLDFIELD was educated at Cambridge University, and came to New Zealand in the Mary Ann (1841). He took up land at Wensley Hill, Richmond (Nelson), where he was sheep-farming for some years. In 1847 he accompanied Governor Grey to the upper Wairau, where he had already established a sheep station. In 1849 he was called to the Legislative Council of New Munster and on 3 Jun 1851 he took the oath as a member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand. When the new constitution came into force Cautley was elected to represent Waimea in Parliament and in the following year he was returned for Waimea East to the Nelson Provincial Council, in which he sat till 1857. He resigned from Parliament in 1854 and from the Provincial Council in 1857 and returned to England.

N.Z.P.D., 1853-54; Nelson P.C. Proc.; L.C. of New Munster, minutes; Jour. L.C. of N.Z.; Arnold; C. A. Macdonald.

Reference: Volume 1, page 90

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