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Biography: Orbell, Margaret

Margaret Orbell and Gordon Walters

A young couple standing arm in arm, smiling.

Māori-language scholar and translator, Margaret Orbell, with her husband, artist Gordon Walters, on their wedding day in 1963.

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Ross Calman. 'Orbell, Margaret', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47849/margaret-orbell-and-gordon-walters (accessed 4 June 2026).