William Alexander Sim achieved distinction in disparate fields of the law. He was a leading barrister in Dunedin, first full-time president of the Court of Arbitration and chairman of two royal commissions. And he…
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Mary Simpson was a religious healer and teacher who was largely responsible for establishing the Christian Science church in New Zealand. A strong – some would say autocratic – spiritual leader, she later founded and…
Eleonora Vera Lazarek, who was known in New Zealand as Nora Sipos, was born on 7 September 1900 in Černovice, in the Czech lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was one of six daughters of Catholic parents Johan…
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Helen Hay Smith was born at McMaster's Flat, South Otago, on 29 August 1873, a daughter of Jessie Haigie and her husband, James Smith, a farmer who had come to New Zealand from Ayr, Scotland. Helen was educated at…
Freda Beatrice Stark was born on 27 March 1910 in Kaeo, Northland, the daughter of James William Stark, a storekeeper, and his wife, Isabella Matilda Bramley. Soon after, her parents moved to Auckland, where Freda…
Herbert Sutcliffe was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, on 19 October 1886, the son of Elizabeth Easter Allen and her husband, John James Sutcliffe, an engineer. A lifelong love of singing came from involvement in…
Benjamin Sutherland was born at Seaward Bush, Invercargill, on 22 October 1873, the son of John Sutherland, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Sutherland. After attending South School, Invercargill, he apparently taught for a…
Donald Sutherland was born at the port town of Wick, Caithness, Scotland, probably in 1843 or 1844, the son of Isabella Strachan and her husband, Donald Sutherland, a ropemaker. Of an adventurous temperament, by the age…
Te Peeti Te Aweawe was born about 1820, the son of Wiremu Kīngi Te Aweawe and his first wife, Hinetārake. His hapū was Ngāti Hineaute, who trace their descent from Rangitāne and Whātonga. One of several Rangitāne…
Te Kakapi, also known as Wharawhara-i-te-rangi, was born in Taranaki. She was the niece of the great Te Āti Awa leader Te Wharepōuri: he treated her, and her brothers Mākere and Mātene Tauwhare, the children of his…
Teoti Kerei Te Hioirangi Te Whāiti was born, according to family information, in 1890 at Pirinoa, Wairarapa. He was the third son among the 13 children of Irāia Te Ama-o-te-rangi Te Whāiti, a Ngāti Kahungunu leader,…
Te Whakataupuka of Ngāi Tahu was born probably in Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island), late in the eighteenth century. His Ngāi Tahu grandfather, Te Hau-tapunui-o-Tū, was instrumental in securing peace…
Blanche Thompson was one of a small number of middle-class women who at the end of the nineteenth century began to participate in sporting activities. In doing so, they rejected traditional views on appropriate…
John Bell Thomson was baptised on 5 February 1835 at Westminster, London, England. He was the oldest of four children born to Eliza Willcox and her husband, Adam Thomson, an architect and surveyor. John Bell Thomson…
Margaret Anderson was born in Manchester, England, on 11 February 1897, one of twelve children of James Anderson, a master bricklayer, and his wife, Margaret Blanshard. Her primary schooling in the outlying village of…
Van Chu-Lin was born, probably in 1893 or 1894, in Zengcheng county in south China, in a small village a short distance north-east of Canton (Guangzhou). The only daughter of an oil vendor, Van Poy Wah, and his wife, Ah…
Te Waari (Ward) Kahukura Whaitiri was born at Kairākau, Chatham Islands, on 11 September 1912, to Meriana Ngāpohe Rāwiri of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāi Tahu, and her husband, Te Wera William Whaitiri, a labourer and seaman,…
Dorothy Mary Neal was born in Christchurch on 22 December 1915, the daughter of Henry Joseph Neal, a tram conductor, and his wife, Florence Rhodes. She attended Avonside Girls’ High School and studied for a time at…
Colin James Wilson was born in St Kilda, Dunedin, on 11 October 1922, the third of five children of Robert Moffat Wilson, a motorman, and his wife, Louisa Elizabeth Lemon. Known as Cole, he attended Mornington School…
Ward George Wohlmann was born on 4 August 1872 in a cottage at the Invercargill police station. His parents were Rebecca McDonald and her husband, George Alfred Wohlman, a police constable and later a farmer. Little is…