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William Arthur Greener Penlington was born on 8 October 1890 at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, where his grandfather, a sawmiller, had settled in the late 1850s. The son of compositor William Penlington and his English-born…

Part of: Penlington, William Arthur Greenerauthored byMary Boyd

Ellen Alice Anderson was born in Eketahuna on 22 June 1882, the sixth child of Swedish immigrants Johanna Manson and her husband, Anders Anderson, a farmer. Her parents had arrived in the district in 1873 and her father…

Part of: Anderson, Ellen Aliceauthored bySuzanne Bowyer

William James Hardham was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 31 July 1876, the son of George Hardham, a labourer, and his wife, Ann Gregory. After attending Mount Cook School, Hardham became a blacksmith. He was a…

Part of: Hardham, William Jamesauthored byJ. A. B. Crawford
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Olive Rose Sutherland was born on 6 August 1894 at Masterton. She was the daughter of Rose Julia Clarke and her husband, Robert Sutherland, a labourer who became a printer’s machinist for the Wairarapa Daily Times.…

Part of: Sutherland, Olive Roseauthored byMargaret Christensen

Gladys Elinor Watkins was born in Akaroa on 20 October 1884, the 11th child of English-born parents Elizabeth Ellen Pavitt and her husband, Stephen Watkins, a gardener. She was educated at Miss Freeman's ladies' school…

Part of: Watkins, Gladys Elinorauthored byPeter Downes

James Basil Wilkie Roberton was born in Auckland on 30 January 1896, the second of four children of Eliza Ann Wilkie and her husband, Ernest Roberton, a prominent medical practitioner. Educated at King’s College,…

Part of: Roberton, James Basil Wilkieauthored byCarol Stevenson

Alexander Ostroff, one of eight children of Rabbi Theodore Lionel Ostroff and his wife, Gertrude Freedman, was born in Helsinki, Finland, on 11 August 1900. Several months later the family left for London. His mother…

Part of: Astor, Alexanderauthored byAnn J. Gluckman

Keith Elliott was born (auspiciously) on 25 April 1916 in the backblocks settlement of Āpiti, north-east of Feilding, the eighth of nine children of Thomas Frank Capper Elliott, a farmer, and his wife, Ethel Marie…

Part of: Elliott, Keithauthored byPeter J. Lineham

John Te One Hippolite (registered as Teone Hoani Hippolite) was born at Madsen Bay, D’Urville Island, on 25 August 1929, the eldest of 10 children of Benjamin (Peneamine) Hippolite, a labourer, and his wife, Maria Poto…

Part of: Hippolite, John Te Oneauthored byJoy Hippolite, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Edward Thomas Te Whiu was one of the last four people to be hanged for murder in New Zealand, and his 1955 execution was to give impetus to the campaign to abolish capital punishment. He was born at Waipapakauri,…

Part of: Te Whiu, Edward Thomasauthored bySherwood Young, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hubert Reginald Holdaway was born at Lower Moutere, near Motueka, on 18 January 1896, the 10th of 12 children of Henry Oscar Holdaway and his wife, Jane Edwards. His parents were farmers and orchardists, and the family…

Part of: Holdaway, Hubert Reginaldauthored byCarol Markwell

Jimmy James, the man who taught thousands of Wellingtonians the art of ballroom dancing, was born Dimitrios Skafidas in Athens, Greece, on 15 February 1915. He was one of six children of Nickolai Skafidas, a shoemaker,…

Part of: James, Jimmyauthored byLouise Buckingham

Pirimi Pererika Tāhiwi was born on 16 September 1890 at Ōtaki. His father, Rāwiri Rota Tāhiwi, a Native Land Court assessor, was of Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Maiōtaki. His mother, Keita Koa, who was also known as Kapu…

Part of: Tāhiwi, Pirimi Pererikaauthored byRupene M. T. Waaka, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rina Matewai Ruru, better known as Lena, was born in Gisborne on 5 June 1902, the sixth of eleven children of Hēnare Keepa Ruru and his wife, Maata Rewanga Parāone. Her birth coincided with the death of her mother’s…

Part of: Ruru, Lena Matewaiauthored byTum Glover, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Kepa Hāmuera Ānaha Ehau was born on 5 November 1885 at Ōtewā, a small community south-east of Ōtorohanga in the King Country. At the time of Kepa’s birth Te Kooti and his Ringatū followers were living at Ōtewā. They…

Part of: Ehau, Kepa Hāmuera Ānahaauthored byManu H. Pene, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Nola Luxford was a New Zealand-born actress, writer, pioneer broadcaster and founder of the Anzac Club in New York City during the Second World War. Born Adelaide Minola Pratt on 23 December 1895 at Hunterville, she was…

Part of: Luxford, Nolaauthored byCarole van Grondelle

Ian Cross was a distinguished novelist, journalist, editor, broadcaster and administrator, best-known as the author of The God boy (1957), one of the finest and most enduringly popular New Zealand novels of the…

Part of: Cross, Ian Robertauthored byIan Richards

Wī Te Tau was the third in a succession of Anglican Māori ministers from the Huata family, their careers spanning most of the history of Christianity in New Zealand. His father, Hēmi, and his paternal grandfather,…

Part of: Huata, Wiremu Te Tauauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

One of just four men to have both captained and coached the All Blacks in test matches, Fred Allen was arguably New Zealand’s best rugby coach of the amateur era. He was certainly the most successful; the team lost none…

Part of: Allen, Frederick Richardauthored byDavid Green

Howard Karl Kippenberger was born at Ladbrooks, south of Christchurch, on 28 January 1897. He was the eldest child of Karl Kippenberger, a head teacher and Methodist local preacher, and his wife, Annie Elizabeth Howard…

Part of: Kippenberger, Howard Karlauthored byGlyn Harper