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Hōne Mohi Tāwhai was the son of Mohi Tāwhai and his wife, Rāwinia Hineikoaia (also known as Hārata). His father belonged to Te Māhurehure, a hapū of the Ngāpuhi confederation, and the family was also connected with Te…

Part of: Tāwhai, Hōne Mohiauthored byRanginui J. Walker, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Horonuku was born probably in the 1820s at Te Rapa, near Tokaanu, on the south-western side of Lake Taupō, the son of Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II and his wife, Te Mare. In his youth and early manhood he was known as…

Part of: Te Heuheu Tūkino IV, Horonukuauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Maata Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu was born in 1848 or 1849, probably near Lake Tarawera, where she was brought up as a puhi (a treasured virgin until marriage) by her mother's people of Tūhourangi, a branch of Te Arawa.…

Part of: Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu, Maataauthored byTania Rei, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield, known as Jerningham, the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Eliza Anne Frances Pattle, was born in London, England, probably on 25 June 1820. His mother died 10 days after his birth,…

Part of: Wakefield, Edward Jerninghamauthored byRonda Cooper

Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld Wood was born in Sydney, Australia, on 29 September 1903, the son of George Arnold Wood and his wife, Eleanor Madeline Whitfeld. His father had migrated to Australia to be the University of…

Part of: Wood, Frederick Lloyd Whitfeldauthored byPeter Munz

Rona Bailey was one of the most important figures on the radical left in twentieth-century New Zealand. She was a communist and an organiser of protest movements, particularly against the Vietnam War, apartheid and…

Part of: Bailey, Ronaauthored byPeter Franks

James Keir Baxter was born on 29 June 1926 at Nurse Ross’s maternity home, Dunedin, the second son of Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter, an Otago farmer, and his wife, Millicent Amiel Macmillan Brown. His brother,…

Part of: Baxter, James Keirauthored byPaul Millar

Margaret Mahy is New Zealand’s most celebrated writer for children and young adults. In a 55-year career she published more than 120 titles: novels, picture books, short stories, poems and educational texts, as well as…

Part of: Mahy, Margaret Mayauthored byTessa Duder

Tomoana was born in the 1820s or early 1830s, probably in Heretaunga, Hawke's Bay. He was the third son of Te Rotohenga, also called Winipere, from whom he derived his high rank. Her father was Hāwea of Ngāti Te Whatu-i…

Part of: Tomoana, Hēnareauthored byAngela Ballara, 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

Mary Anne Stewart was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, on 29 May 1831, the eldest daughter of Walter George Stewart, Jamaica's last island secretary, and his wife, Susan Hewitt. Mary Anne Stewart seemed destined for a…

Part of: Barker, Mary Anneauthored byCherry Hankin

Cecil Albert Blazey was chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union during the most turbulent period of its history. He was born in Hastings on 21 July 1909, youngest of the five children of William Robert Blazey,…

Part of: Blazey, Cecil Albertauthored byJulia Millen

Samuel Butler was born probably on 4 December 1835 at Langar Rectory, Nottinghamshire, England, and was baptised on 17 December 1835. He was the second child of the Reverend Thomas Butler and his wife, Fanny Worsley. He…

Part of: Butler, Samuelauthored byRoger Robinson

Samoan-born graphic designer Joseph Churchward was an internationally renowned typeface designer whose work graced record covers, billboards, newspapers and popular literature such as posters and brochures around the…

Part of: Churchward, Josephauthored bySafua Akeli Amaama

Mark Cohen's origins explain both his incessant desire to improve the world and the restless drive he brought to the task. Born on 26 November 1849 in the Stepney district of London, England, he was the eldest child of…

Part of: Cohen, Markauthored byGeorge Griffiths

Pāora (Paul) Kīngi Delamere was born, according to family information, in May 1889 at Whitianga, near Ōmāio on the eastern shore of the Bay of Plenty, and was first given the name Te Rata. His father was Te Kohi Edward…

Part of: Delamere, Pāora Kīngiauthored byTe Aomuhurangi Te Maka Jones, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was born on 23 May 1790 at Condé sur Noireau, Normandy, France. He was the son of Gabriel Charles François Dumont d'Urville, a civil and criminal judge and heir to vast estates,…

Part of: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sébastien Césarauthored byMargaret J. A. Simpson

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

Walter Edward Gudgeon was born in London, England, on 4 September 1841, the first child of Thomas Wayth Gudgeon, an upholsterer, and his first wife, Mary Johnston. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1850 and settled…

Part of: Gudgeon, Walter Edwardauthored byDavid Green

James Hight was among the most formative influences on higher education in New Zealand during the first half of the twentieth century and, because of his deep imprint on students, well into the second half. He was born…

Part of: Hight, Jamesauthored byN. C. Phillips