Valentine Jackson Chapman was born on St Valentine’s Day (14 February) 1910, at Alcester, Warwickshire, England, the son of Thomas Jackson Chapman, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Amy Evelyn Wynn. He was educated…
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Elsie Low was born on 25 July 1875 at Horndon on the Hill, Essex, England, the youngest of five children of Sabine Susanna Harris and her husband, Benjamin Low, general storekeepers. The family left England for…
Arnold Hansson played a major role in New Zealand forestry during the 1920s and 1930s. Born Arnold Maria Hansen in Drammen, Norway, on 10 November 1889 to Hans Arnold Hansen, a chemist, and his wife, Marie Christine…
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Stella May Henderson was born at Kaiapoi, New Zealand, according to family sources on 25 October 1871. She was the seventh child of Alice Connolly and her husband, Daniel Henderson, who is thought to have started a flax…
Robert West Holmes was born in Hackney, London, England, on 25 September 1856, the son of Alice West and her husband, Robert Thomas Holmes, a brewer and (later) engraver. Little is known of Robert's early years, but it…
George Vernon Hudson was born on 20 April 1867 at London, England, one of six children of Emily Jane Carnal and her husband, Charles Hudson, a professional artist–craftsman. George's mother died when he was two years…
Edward Hunter was born on 2 June 1885 at Rigside, on the Lanarkshire coalfields in Scotland. He was the son of John Hunter, a miner, and his wife, Jessie Lammie. By his own account he received little formal education…
Leonard Monk Isitt was for many years the most prominent prohibition campaigner in New Zealand. He was born in Bedford, England, on 4 January 1855, the son of James Isitt, a butcher, and his wife, Rebecca Catherine Cole…
Grace Jane Joel, the sixth of nine children and first daughter of Kate Woolf and her husband, Maurice Joel, was born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 28 May 1865. Her parents were both born in England and had married in…
Thelma Rene Kent was born in Christchurch on 21 October 1899, the younger of two children of Catherine Maude Hales and her husband, John Robert Kent, a bootmaker. She was educated at Addington School and the…
Charles Knight was baptised at Rye, Sussex, England, on 14 July 1808, the youngest child of James and Ann Knight. His father died in 1808 and in 1810 his mother married Thomas Godfrey of Hawkhurst, Kent. In October 1828…
Sidney Duigan was born in Wanganui into a notable local family on 4 November 1918. Her father, Charles Lowther Duigan, a sharebroker, was also managing director of the Wanganui Herald Newspaper Company, and her…
James Kennedy Logan was born at West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 8 May 1844, the son of Marion Kennedy and her husband, Archibald Logan, who worked in the post office. He attended the parish school and Chalmers…
Margaret Lorimer, daughter of Jessie McLennan and her husband, James Lorimer, a ploughman, was born on 9 June 1866 at Inverness, Scotland. In 1871 her family emigrated on the Glenmark and arrived in Lyttelton, New…
Sadie Murn was born in Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia, on 3 July 1886. She was subsequently registered as Sarah, but always known as Sadie. Her parents were Sarah Jane Stuart and her husband, John Murn, a miner.…
William Miles Maskell was born at Mapperton, Dorsetshire, England, on 5 October 1839. He was the son of Mary Scott and her husband, William Maskell, an Anglican clergyman who joined the Catholic church in the 1850s.…
David Miller, one of New Zealand’s leading scientists, shares with R. J. Tillyard the distinction of founding professional entomology in New Zealand. Their work was based on the contributions of several great amateurs.…
Joseph Holmes Miller, the son of Irish parents Annie Mary Campbell and her husband, Samuel Hunter Miller, a farmer, was born at Waimate on 12 February 1919. He was educated at Willowbridge School and then Waimate High…
Helen Lyster Nicol was born on 29 May 1854 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the sixth of 10 surviving children of Margaret Cairns Smith and her husband, David Nicol, head gardener at the Orphan Hospital in Edinburgh. When Helen…
Thomas Jeffery Parker (who was known as Jeffery) was born in London, England, on 17 October 1850, the eldest son of Elizabeth Jeffery and her husband, William Kitchen Parker, a medical practitioner and noted zoologist…