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Taukē, of Te Inu-ā-wai hapū of Ngā Ruahine, a section of Ngāti Ruanui, was born probably in 1810 or 1811, in Waikato, where his mother was being held in captivity. When Taukē was born she thought of killing him to spare…

Part of: Taukē, Te Hāpimanaauthored byIan Church, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rua Kēnana, sometimes known as Ruatapunui, has usually been considered to be the posthumous son of Kēnana Tūmoana of Ngāti Kahungunu, who was killed fighting for Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki at Mākāretu sometime…

Part of: Rua Kēnana Hepetipaauthored byJudith Binney, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Paraire Karaka Paikea was the great-grandson of Paikea Te Hekeua, a prominent chief of Te Uri-o-Hau and Ngāti Whatua. His father was Karaka Eramiha Paikea, and his mother was Tuhi Harirū Maihi, daughter of Wereti and…

Part of: Paikea, Paraire Karakaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Hōne Heke Rankin, also known as John Rankin, was born at Gisborne on 13 January 1896 to Matire Ngāpua of Ngāpuhi, and her husband, John Claudian (Claudius) Rankin, a Kaikohe storekeeper. Matire was the daughter of…

Part of: Rankin, Hōne Hekeauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Frank Oswald Victor Acheson was born on 27 June 1887 at Riverton, Southland, the youngest of nine children of Robert Acheson, a merchant, and his wife, Annie Sinclair Allan. He was educated at Riverton school and…

Part of: Acheson, Frank Oswald Victorauthored byJohn Acheson, Richard Boast

Wiremu Hīroki is thought to have been born in the mid 1850s, at Waitōtara in southern Taranaki. As a youth he lived with Ngāti Pourua, a major hapū of Ngā Rauru, at Papatupu, near Waitōtara. Those who knew him were…

Part of: Hiroki, Wiremuauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pei Te Hurinui Jones was the son of Daniel Lewis, a European storekeeper, and Paretekōrae Poutama of Ngāti Maniapoto. He was born on 9 September 1898 at Harataunga (Kennedys Bay) on the eastern coast of the Coromandel…

Part of: Jones, Pei Te Hurinuiauthored byBruce Biggs, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Alfred Thomas Carroll (Kara) was born at Wairoa, in northern Hawke’s Bay, on 24 August 1890, the youngest of three children of Thomas Carroll, a farmer, and his wife, Mako Kaimoana. At an early age he became known as…

Part of: Carroll, Turiauthored byJinty Rorke, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

'Tangohia mai te taura i taku kakī kia waiata au i taku waiata.' (Take the rope from my throat that I may sing my song.) These words were spoken by Mokomoko, a chief of Te Whakatōhea of the eastern Bay of Plenty, as he…

Part of: Mokomokoauthored byTairongo Amoamo, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hōne Te Kāuru Taiapa, one of 14 children and also known as John Taiapa, was born at Tikitiki on 10 August 1912. His parents were Tāmati Taiapa and Maraea Te Iritawa of Te Whānau-ā-Hinerupe and other closely related hapū…

Part of: Taiapa, Hōne Te Kāuruauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Matiu Rata was a greatly respected and influential Minister of Māori Affairs and of Lands in the third Labour government, and progenitor of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Mana Motuhake movement. He spent much of his life…

Part of: Rata, Matiu Waitaiauthored byTe Haumihiata Mason, Tiopira McDowell

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

Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana was the founder of a Māori religious movement which, in the late 1920s, also became a major political movement. He was the latest in a line of prophetic descent which included Te Ua Haumēne,…

Part of: Rātana, Tahupōtiki Wiremuauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Albert (or Arapeta) Asher was born on 3 December 1879 and Ernest Te Kēpa Asher on 21 April 1886 at Tauranga, the fifth and seventh of eleven children. They were of Te Arawa, of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Pukenga descent…

Part of: Asher, Albertauthored byRobin C. McConnell, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Louis Hekenui Bidois, commonly known as Heke, was born at Te Puna, near Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, on 28 March 1899, the son of Charles (Haare) Bidois, a farmer, and his wife, Pauline (Pōrina) Faulkner. Heke was a…

Part of: Bidois, Louis Hekenuiauthored byJinty Rorke, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

James Duncan was born on 1 February 1813 at Airdrie, near Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a Lanarkshire baker, James Duncan, and his wife, Marrian Hill. After studying at Glasgow University from 1836 to 1838, he attended…

Part of: Duncan, Jamesauthored byG. S. Parsonson

George Douglas Hamilton was born on 15 July 1835, in Antwerp, Belgium, and lived there as a child. The son of Mary Wilkinson and her husband, William Hamilton, a merchant, George was a member of a prominent Scottish…

Part of: Hamilton, George Douglasauthored byIan McGibbon

Richard Tahuora Hīmona was born at Te Ore Ore, near Masterton, on 7 September 1905. He was the son of Arapata Hīmona, a farmer, and his wife, Wirapeti Mīkaera of Hāmua, a hapū originally of Rangitāne descent, but…

Part of: Hīmona, Richard Tahuoraauthored byPeter James Himona, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Adrian Cornelius Langerwerf was born in Waspik, Noord Brabant, in the Netherlands, on 15 September 1876, the son of Cornelius Langerwerf, a farmer, and his wife, Lucia Smeur. Feeling a call to be a missionary priest, he…

Part of: Langerwerf, Adrian Corneliusauthored byHugh Laracy

Rāwiri Puhirake, also known as Rāwiri Tuaia and Whakatauhoe, was one of the leaders of Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga from the 1850s until his death in 1864. He was the son of Te Muna, and grandson of Whakapā and Hinerangi…

Part of: Puhirake, Rāwiriauthored byJinty Rorke, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team