Arthur Desmond was unknown to the electors of Hawke's Bay when he stood for Parliament in 1884. 'We only know that Mr Desmond is a cattle-drover, and that he is of Radical tendencies', the editor of the Hawke's Bay…
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John Ewing was born probably on 3 November 1844 in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the son of Ann Barclay and Archibald Orr Ewing, a manufacturer. Little is known about Ewing's early life other than that he was…
Walter James Scott was born at Hilton, near Temuka, on 23 December 1902, the son of Christina McKay and her farmer husband, James Scott. His father died when he was 11, causing a crisis in the family’s fortunes, and it…
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Described as 'a past master in the science of hair-splitting', Philadelphus Bain Fraser, or 'PB' as he was known, gained a reputation for his dogged defence of traditional Presbyterian teaching. He was born in Lerwick,…
Freeman Wright Holmes was born on a farm near Ashburton, New Zealand, probably on 6 June 1871, the son of Henrietta Wright and her husband, Thomas Holmes, a farmer. He began his lifelong involvement with horses and…
Allan McLean was baptised on 24 May 1822, the seventh of nine children of Alexander McLean and his wife, Mary McLean, of Lagmhor on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll, Scotland. The Isle of Coll had been inhabited by…
Alfred James Murdoch was born at Onehunga on 18 April 1877, one of at least five children of Mary Ann Nealis and her husband, John Murdoch, a clerk. The family lived at Ōpua, Bay of Islands, from 1886 and eight years…
Olive Rose Sutherland was born on 6 August 1894 at Masterton. She was the daughter of Rose Julia Clarke and her husband, Robert Sutherland, a labourer who became a printer’s machinist for the Wairarapa Daily Times.…
A gifted teacher and an educationalist concerned with increasing women's opportunities, Stephanie Grace Young was known and admired beyond the schools in which she taught. She was born on 13 July 1890 at Amberley…
James Shelley was born on 3 September 1884 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. His father, also James, was a potter turned policeman; his mother, Ellen Walton, was a weaver's daughter. From this artisan culture – which…
The Coates brothers, Edward and Thomas, who sailed into the Waitematā Harbour on 19 October 1866 aboard the Winterthur, came from a long-established Herefordshire gentry family. As younger sons of a large family they…
Hiram Hunter was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 10 February 1874, the son of Charles Hunter, a maltster, and his wife, Deborah Ann Eden. He was educated at the Sydenham school and followed a variety of…
Amy May Scott was born on 2 July 1888 in Islington, London, the daughter of William Scott, a silversmith's salesman, and his wife, Clara Rosina Charlotte Hawkins. She won a scholarship to the Mary Datchelor School for…
William Hort Levin, frequently called Willie Levin, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 7 August 1845. Both his parents, Nathaniel William Levin and his wife, Jessie Hort, were active adherents to the Jewish faith.…
Peter McSkimming was born, probably in 1847 or 1848, in Auchenheath, Lanarkshire, Scotland; he was the son of Mary McNish and her husband, Peter McSkimming, a brick- and tile-maker and pipe manufacturer. His early life…
Minarapa Rangihatuake (also known as Minarapa Te Atua-kē) was the Wesleyan lay preacher responsible for the first church in Wellington. He was of Ngā Māhanga and was born, probably early in the nineteenth century, in…
Arthur Dewhurst Riley was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England, on 18 February 1860, the son of Reuben Dewhurst Riley, a master house-painter, and his wife, Jane Miller. Arthur attended local schools before going to…
Elizabeth Mary Brittan, known as Mary Brittan, was born into an Anglican medical family in Castleton, near Sherborne, Dorset, England, on 30 March 1845. After her mother, Elizabeth Mary Chandler, died in 1849, her…
John Ross Marshall was born in Wellington on 5 March 1912, the son of Allan Marshall, a clerk, and his wife, Florence May Ross. His father was from Perthshire, and his mother’s family had also originally come from…
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…