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Robert Tahupōtiki Haddon was born on 5 October 1866 in the Hokianga district, the son of Charles Haddon, a Scots bushman and farm labourer, and his wife, Te Paia (Sophia) Tahupōtiki, of Ngā Ruahine and Ngāti Manuhiakai…

Part of: Haddon, Robert Tahupōtikiauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Gilbert Mair is said to have been born at Whāngārei, New Zealand, on 10 January 1843, the eighth of twelve children of Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey and her husband, Gilbert Mair, a merchant trader. Gilbert Mair senior was…

Part of: Mair, Gilbertauthored byPaula Savage

Te Rangikāheke, known also by his baptismal name of Wiremu Maihi (William Marsh), or Wī Maihi, was born in the early nineteenth century, according to his own evidence, about 1815, possibly at Puhirua or Te Awahou, in…

Part of: Te Rangikāheke, Wiremu Maihiauthored byJenifer Curnow, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Te Whenuanui was born in the early nineteenth century at Maungapōhatu, near Lake Waikaremoana, the son of Te Umuariki and Tīkina. He belonged to the Tūhoe hapū, Te Urewera, and to Ngāti Rongo. He married Te Ākiu of…

Part of: Te Whenuanuiauthored byPou Temara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tohu Kākahi, whose historical importance has often been ignored, was responsible along with Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III for making the village of Parihaka in Taranaki a symbol of pacifist protest against government land…

Part of: Tohu Kākahiauthored byAilsa Smith, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Puea Hērangi was born at Whatiwhatihoe, near Pirongia, on 9 November 1883. Her mother was Tiahuia, daughter of Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero of Ngāti Mahuta, the second Māori King, and his senior wife, Hera. Her father was…

Part of: Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Pueaauthored byAnn Parsonson, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Known in his youth as Tama-ki-Hikurangi, Kawepō was born at Taumata-o-he pā, at the junction of the Mangatahi Stream and the Maraekākaho and Ngaruroro rivers, early in the nineteenth century. His mother, Te Pakapaka,…

Part of: Kawepō, Rēnata Tama-ki-Hikurangiauthored byAngela Ballara, Patrick Parsons, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Ngātuere was born at Te Pāparu, a Wairarapa pā near Te Ahikōuka, in the vicinity of the Waiōhine River. His father was Tāwhirimātea and his grandfather Te Ātāhuna, both leaders of Ngāti Kahukura-awhitia, one of the most…

Part of: Ngātuere Tāwhirimātea Tāwhaoauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tōpia Peehi Tūroa was a chief of Ngāti Patutokotoko hapū of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi of the upper Whanganui River. His influence extended to Lake Taupō. Born probably in the second decade of the nineteeth century, he…

Part of: Tūroa, Tōpia Peehiauthored byIan Church, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Kooti was born into Ngāti Maru, a hapū of Rongowhakaata, at Pā-o-Kahu, overlooking the Awapuni lagoon in Poverty Bay. According to the traditions he was born in 1814. However, when in 1866 he was banished to the…

Part of: Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūrukiauthored byJudith Binney, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tītokowaru was born near Ōkaiawa, in South Taranaki, probably about 1823. He belonged to Ngāti Manuhiakai hapū of Ngā Ruahine, a section of Ngāti Ruanui. He traced his descent from Turi and Rongorongo, and from…

Part of: Tītokowaru, Riwhaauthored byJames Belich, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Charles and Edward Davis were two of the four sons of John Charles Davis (Hōne Hāre Rēweti) and his wife, Te Riutoto Aihe. John was the son of Merekaimanu of Ngāti Whanaunga and Ngāti Pāoa and Edward Telford Davis, of…

Part of: Davis, Charles Richardauthored byTe Aue Davis, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Richard Taylor was born at Letwell, Yorkshire, England, on 21 March 1805, one of four children of Richard Taylor and his wife, Catherine Spencer. He was baptised two days later, in the neighbouring parish of Throapham.…

Part of: Taylor, Richardauthored byJ. M. R. Owens

Te Rata Mahuta was the fourth leader of the Māori King movement. He inherited many of the leadership qualities of his predecessors, with the added support of 50 years of widespread Māori recognition of the special…

Part of: Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowheroauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Āperahama Taonui was the visionary leader of Ngāpuhi hapū Te Popoto of Utakura in the upper Hokianga, and a founder of the Kotahitanga movement, which evolved into the Māori parliaments of the 1890s. He was born, by his…

Part of: Taonui, Āperahamaauthored byJudith Binney, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Mōkena Kōhere was born at Waiora-ā-Tāne, Rangitukia. His father was Pākura, his mother Moahiraia. He belonged to Te Whānau-a-Rerewā, which has sub-tribal links with Ngāi Tuiti-Matua and Te Whānau-a-Tūwhakairiora of the…

Part of: Kōhere, Mōkenaauthored byRarawa Kohere, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Papahurihia, also known as Te Atua Wera, was a renowned Ngāpuhi tohunga. He belonged to both Te Hikutū and Ngāti Hau hapū. The date of his birth is unknown; in 1866 he was said to be about 50 years of age, but he was…

Part of: Papahurihia, Penetanaauthored byJudith Binney, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III was a descendant of both Awanuiārangi, the founder of Te Āti Awa of Taranaki, and Tahuaoariki. More directly, he was descended from Te Rangiāpitirua, paramount chief of Te Āti Awa, and Korotaia.…

Part of: Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Eruetiauthored byDanny Keenan, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Rangihiwinui, also known as Taitoko and later as Te Keepa, or Major Kemp, is thought to have been born in the first half of the 1820s at Tūwhakatupua, on the Manawatū River, near Ōpiki. His mother was Rere-ō-maki,…

Part of: Te Rangihiwinui, Te Keepaauthored byAnthony Dreaver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Edward William Stafford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 23 April 1819, eldest son of Berkeley Buckingham Smith Stafford of Maine, County Louth, Ireland, and his wife, Anne Tytler. Stafford grew up in the leisured,…

Part of: Stafford, Edward Williamauthored byEdmund Bohan