Adela Blanche Anderson was born on 1 January 1846 at Clifton, Bristol, England. Her parents were James Anderson and his wife, Eliza Catherine Dick. As a child and young woman Adela lived in England, Scotland, Ireland…
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Henry Valder was born on 14 August 1862 at Southampton, Hampshire, England, the son of Mary Collingridge and her husband, George Valder, a corn merchant. Henry was educated at a church school in Winchester. His father's…
Joseph Vivian Wilson – JV to his colleagues, Vivian to his family – was a man of many parts. He was a brilliant classical scholar who might well have had a distinguished academic career. But it is as one of the founding…
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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,…
Bill Wilson was a key figure in Group Architects, an Auckland collective instrumental in developing a modern architecture responsive to New Zealand’s culture and conditions. This interest informed the buildings he…
Julius von Haast was a foundational figure in New Zealand science, both as a researcher and as an institution builder. His geological and geographical surveys helped foster a better scientific understanding of New…
Hilda Phillips was one of the best-known and most persistent critics of the Māori land, resource rights and autonomy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s. She attacked the foundations of Māori grievances against the Crown,…
Peter Thomas Bertram McKeefry was born on 3 July 1899 in Greymouth, the fifth of seven children of Mary McAlary and her husband, Michael McKeefry, a police constable. His parents were both born in County Londonderry,…
John Sheehan was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 5 July 1844, the son of David Sheehan and his wife, Ellen Byrne. His father, a Warkworth carpenter, had emigrated from Ireland to Melbourne, Australia, about 1840,…
Arthur Edward McDonogh (or MacDonogh) was born probably in 1809 or 1810 in Ireland; his parents' names are unknown. As a young man McDonogh served as an officer in the 5th Fusiliers. By the middle of 1840 he had…
Edwin Davy, the son of Anna Maria Smart and her husband, Edwin Davy, was born on 9 September 1850 in Taranaki, New Zealand, where his parents farmed at Waiwhakaiho. Educated at Wesley College and St John's College,…
John Grigg was born in London, England, on 4 June 1838, the son of James Grigg, chief clerk and financial manager of a home-furnishing business, and his wife, Ruth Jones (formerly Martin). Both parents died during his…
John Inglis was born on 14 July 1808 at Minnyhive (Moniaive), Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of Andrew Inglis and his wife, Margaret Maxwell. A foreman mason by trade, he resolved at the age of 31 to enter the…
Isabella Malcolm was born in Hoxton, London, England, on 22 June 1850, one of five children of Scots parents Jemima Crawford Souter and her husband, Andrew Wilson Malcolm, a brewer's clerk. The family moved to Dublin…
Murray Beresford Roberts was born at Wellington on 10 August 1919, the only child of Andrew Murray Roberts, a surveyor, and his wife, Annie Isabelle Huckstep. He was brought up in a well-to-do Auckland home. His father…
Helen Flora Victoria Scales was born in Lower Hutt on 24 May 1887. She was the daughter of Gertrude Maynard Snow and her husband, George Herbert Scales, an insurance agent and the founder of the exporters and…
William Arthur Whitlock was born at Nelson on 2 July 1891, the son of William Charles Whitlock and his wife, Hobart-born Mary Saul Alexander. His father had come to New Zealand from England to take up farming, but…
Anna Maria Williams, known as Maria, was born at Waimate mission station, near Paihia, Northland, New Zealand, on 25 February 1839, the daughter of Jane Nelson and her husband, William Williams, Church Missionary…
William Saltonstall Wiseman was born probably on 4 August 1814 at Bombay, India, son of Captain Sir William Saltonstall Wiseman of Canfield Hall, Essex, England, and Catherine Mackintosh, daughter of Sir James…
Marie Henriette Suzanne Aubert (known first as Suzanne Aubert and later in religion as Mary Joseph Aubert) was born at Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France, on 19 June 1835. She was the daughter of Henriette Catherine…