Skip to main content
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography logo

Biography: Skinner, Henry Devenish

Related biographies

Best, Elsdon

1856–1931

Farm worker, soldier, sawmiller, health inspector, ethnographer, writer

Teviotdale, David

1870–1958

Farmer, bookseller, ethnological collector, archaeologist, museum director

Biographies that mention Skinner, Henry Devenish

Andersen, Johannes Carl

1873–1962

Clerk, poet, ethnologist, librarian, editor, historian

Apanui, Wēpiha

Ngāti Awa leader, carver

Betty Batham, 1969

Batham, Elizabeth Joan

1917–1974

Marine biologist, university lecturer

William Baucke, Frederick Bennett, Peter Buck and Tai Mitchell, 1907

Baucke, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm

1848–1931

Linguist, ethnologist, journalist, interpreter

Beattie, James Herries

1881–1972

Bookkeeper, journalist, historian, ethnologist, bookseller

Duff, Roger Shepherd

1912–1978

Ethnologist, museum director

Fels, Willi

1858–1946

Merchant, collector, philanthropist

Hamilton, Augustus

1853–1913

Ethnologist, biologist, museum director

Skinner, William Henry

1857–1946

Surveyor, historian, ethnographer

Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth

1896–1989

Runholder, wool-classer, cattle breeder, historian, community leader

Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth

1886–1970

Doctor, soldier, sheepfarmer, conservationist, community leader

Print the full story

How to cite this page

Atholl Anderson. 'Skinner, Henry Devenish', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/128499/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).