| Henry Okey | |
| Constituency Mp: | Taranaki |
| Parliament: | New Zealand |
| Term Start: | 1907 |
| Term End: | 1918 |
| Predecessor: | Edward Smith |
| Successor: | Sydney George Smith |
| Office3: | Chairman of Taranaki County Council |
| Term Start3: | 1896 |
| Term End3: | 1905 |
| Birthname: | Henry James Hobbs Okey |
| Birth Date: | 28 May 1957 |
| Birth Place: | New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| Party: | Reform |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
Henry James Hobbs Okey (28 May 1857 – 13 September 1918) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Born in New Plymouth in 1857, Okey was the son of Edward Okey, an ironmonger.[1] His brothers included Edward Nelson Okey, who in 1880 won what later became known as the Ballinger Belt for the New Zealand champion shot.[1] [2]
On 2 July 1884, Okey married Louisa Morey.[3]
Okey was a member of the Taranaki County Council, and served as its chairman between 1896 and 1905.[1] [4] He was also vice president and then president of the Taranaki Agricultraul and Pastoral Society.[1]
Okey contested the Taranaki electorate at the 1905 general election, coming second, 236 votes behind the incumbent, Edward Smith.[5] However, Smith died in 1907 and Okey won the subsequent by-election as an independent. He gave sympathy and support to the Reform Party, and later formally became a Reform MP. Okey held the Taranaki seat until his death in 1918.[6]
Okey died in New Plymouth on 13 September 1918,[1] and was buried in Te Henui Cemetery.[7]
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. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 . Guy Scholefield . 3rd . First ed. published 1913 . 1950 . Govt. Printer . Wellington . 130.