Ethel Emma Black was born at Kaiti, Gisborne, on 12 May 1904, the daughter of Ethel Louise Evans and her husband, Walter Stuart Black, a carpenter who also had a small farm. After attending local primary schools she…
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James Cuthbert Mercer was born in Caversham, Dunedin, on 16 September 1886, the son of Robert Mercer, a gardener, and his wife, Sarah Jane Speed. Educated in Dunedin, Bert (as he was known) undertook an apprenticeship…
David Miller, one of New Zealand’s leading scientists, shares with R. J. Tillyard the distinction of founding professional entomology in New Zealand. Their work was based on the contributions of several great amateurs.…
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Cyril James Morton was born at Wanganui on 19 April 1903, the son of Helen Molloy and her husband, William Thomas James Morton, a grocer. He was educated at South Wellington School and Wellington College. After leaving…
John Oliver Musgrave was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, on 10 April 1895, the youngest of eight children of Charlotte Sophia Pells and her husband, John Keenan Musgrave, a worsted cloth manufacturer. Jack, as he…
Jelal Kalyanji was born on 17 August 1899 at Surat, Gujarat, India, to Jagdamba Hansu Chauhan and her husband, Kalyanji Vanamali. Like many Hindus, he was married as a child but his wife died in 1910. Jelal’s father, a…
Patrick and William Denis Nolan were born at Arawata River, Jackson Bay, south Westland, on 19 September 1875 and 18 November 1877 respectively. They were the fourth and fifth children of Andrew Nolan and his wife, Mary…
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe was born at Long Gully, Victoria, Australia, on 21 July 1858, the son of Edmund O'Keeffe, a miner and amateur painter, and his wife, Eliza Ellen Vickers. The family came to New Zealand and settled…
Thomas O'Shea was the son of Edmond Shea and his wife, Johanna Sullivan. Both born in Ireland, they married in 1869 in Charleston on the West Coast of New Zealand where Shea was a miner. The couple emigrated to…
Leonard Seton Otway was born on 6 February 1894 in Mount Eden, Auckland, the eldest of three children of Loftus Hastings Otway, a surveyor, and his wife, Mary Russell Puckey. Known as Seton, he grew up on his parents'…
Ōtene Pāora was born, probably in the 1860s or early 1870s, at Rēweti, south of Helensville, the third son of Pāora Kāwharu and his wife, Rāhera Uruamo of Te Taoū, Ngā Oho and Te Uringutu hapū of Ngāti Whātua. He was…
Percy Reginald Paris was born on 22 June 1882 at Dunedin, New Zealand, the son of Eleanor Margaret Pocock and her husband, William Paris, a hairdresser. At the age of 16 Percy was converted to Methodism and attended the…
Robert Parker is a pre-eminent example of the professionally trained English musician whose high standards, enterprise and skills were fully recognised and developed in the New Zealand environment. He was revered by…
Alan Stuart Paterson was born in Hawera on 24 January 1902, the son of Ada Fannie Butler and her husband, Alexander Paterson, a draper, who was later an art dealer. He was a nephew of George Butler, New Zealand’s…
Inez Isabel Maud Peacocke was born in Devonport, Auckland, on 31 January 1881. She was the daughter of Emily Frances Mitchell and her husband, Gerald Loftus Torin Peacocke, a Madeira-born English barrister, later editor…
Īhāia Pōrutu Puketapu was a prominent leader of Te Āti Awa of the Wellington and Hutt Valley districts. He was born at Waiwhetū in the Hutt Valley on 7 February 1887, the eldest of four brothers and one sister. His…
The artist H. Linley Richardson is best known for his vivid realist portraits of notable New Zealanders posed against their local environments. Born Harry Linley Richardson on 19 October 1878 at Peckham Rye, Surrey,…
William Richmond was born at Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland, on 8 August 1869, the son of Thomas Orr Richmond, a farmer, and his wife, Catherine (Kate) Stewart. William left school at the age of 13 and emigrated…
Wiremu Rikihana was born at Kaiawe, near Waireia, northern Hokianga, in 1851. He was of Ngāti Te Reinga of Waihou, and Te Rarawa; his hapū, Te Tāwhiu, was prominent in the north. His mother's name was Hārata. His father…
Caesar Roose lived his life on the Waikato River. The elder son of English-born Mary Ashley and her German husband, Ceasar (Caesar) Henry Roose, he was born on 29 July 1886 at Mercer, on the 67-acre Tuoro Island, which…