Āpihai Te Kawau was born towards the end of the eighteenth century. His father was Tarahawaiki and his mother was Mokorua, who was descended from the Waiōhua people. Te Kawau's grandfather was Tuperiri, principal leader…
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Tom Clark was one of New Zealand’s leading twentieth-century industrialists, and the driving force behind Crown Lynn pottery. As one of the fourth generation of Clarks to manufacture brick and pipes, he branched out to…
Frank Langstone was born, probably on 10 December 1881, in Bulls, the fourth of five children. His father, Charles Walter Langston, had various occupations, including that of veterinary surgeon; his mother, Margaret…
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Robert Logan was born at Langton, Berwickshire, Scotland, on 2 April 1863, the son of Euphemia Helen Logan and her husband, Thomas Logan, a tenant farmer. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. Arriving in New Zealand in…
Hēni Te Kiri Karamū, also known as Hēni Pore (Jane Foley) and as Jane Russell, belonged to Ngāti Uenukukōpako and Ngāti Hinepare of Te Arawa. She was descended from Ngātoroirangi of Te Arawa canoe. She was born probably…
John Weeks, although one of the leading New Zealand painters of the 1930s and 1940s, has been rather neglected by art historians. He was born on 8 June 1886 at Sydenham Damerel, Devonshire, England, to farmer parents…
Ian Athfield was an award-winning Wellington architect whose practice, Athfield Architects, designed distinctive and innovative houses that challenged suburban norms, as well as celebrated commercial, public and…
Cherry Raymond was a broadcaster, journalist and opinion-leader, and a household name during the 1960s and 1970s when few women achieved such prominence in the media. Although she particularly campaigned on women’s…
Wilhelmina Sherriff (registered as William Sherif) Bain was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 5 September 1848, the daughter of Elizabeth Middlemass and her husband, John Bain, a spirit merchant. She came to New Zealand…
Born at Tumai in Otago, New Zealand, on 9 May 1878, Jessie Lillian Buckland was one of seven children of Caroline Fairburn and her husband, John Channing Buckland. Her father was a farmer, and from 1884 to 1887 the…
Ruawahine, of Ngāi Tūkairangi hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi, was the daughter of Tāwaho and Parewhakarau. Also known as Puihi, she was born probably in the early nineteenth century and became an important link between Māori and…
Cyrus Haley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, on 22 September 1832, the son of Joseph Haley and his wife, Jane Knowles. He was an engineer by trade. When he married Emily Jane Haigh in London on 22 September 1865…
Clara Evelyn James was born in Ettrick, South Otago, on 4 March 1885, the daughter of Christina Thomas and her husband, William James, a rabbiter. Little is known of her early life. She lived in Dunedin before moving to…
Ana Matawhāura Hato was born in Ngāpuna, Rotorua, on 30 December 1907, one of three children of Hato Mae Ngāmahirau, of Ngāti Whakaue, and his wife, Riripeti Te Opehōia Eparaima, of Tūhourangi. Her close relatives…
Alexander McMinn was born at Dunlady, near Dundonald, County Down, Ireland, on 28 August 1842, the son of Francis McMinn, a doctor, and his wife, Mary Day. Little is known of his early years, but in 1863 he arrived in…
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…
Sholto Kairākau Black was born in Ōpōtiki on 13 January 1902, the seventh child and youngest son of John Black, a farmer at nearby Ōtara, and his wife, Polly Matuakore (Pare Pīkake) Delamere, who was also known as Mary…
Born in Blenheim on 27 May 1898, Charles Ritchie Burns was the eldest son of Archibald Douglas Burns, a draughtsman, and his wife, Margaret Mary Direen. He had two sisters and two younger brothers. In him were mixed…
Anne Maria Maynard, daughter of Sarah Binfield and her husband, Thomas Maynard, a butcher, was born on 13 January 1791, at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Her future husband, Thomas, was also born there on 20…
Edward John von Dadelszen is among those who shaped New Zealand's national institutions, but even at the height of his public service career more attention was paid to his brief, albeit romantic, adventures as a…