Ernest Robert Godward was born in London, England, on 7 April 1869, the son of Henry Robert Godward, a fireman, and his wife, Sarah Ann Pattison. Family tradition has it that Ernest ran away to sea at 12, reaching east…
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According to family information, Robert Henry Wynyard was born on 24 December 1802, at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England; he was baptised in London on 13 February 1803. He was the younger son of Jane Gladwin, lady-in-…
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…
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Robert Atherton Edwin was born at Camden Town, London, England, on 16 August 1839, the son of Felix Edwin, a commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife, Marianne Atherton. After attending Wimborne Minster Grammar School…
Robert Cecil Hayes was born in Wellington on 19 January 1900, the son of Robert Edward Hayes and his wife, Ellen (Nell) Thomas. His father worked as a clerk in the accounts branch of the Post and Telegraph Department…
Robert Nettleton Field was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on 3 March 1899. His father, Horace Banks Field, was an insurance clerk and would have liked his eldest son to follow suit, but Robert showed artistic ability…
Robert Reid Parris, son of William and Agnes Parris, was baptised on 16 May 1816 at Chard, Somerset, England. His forebears, of French protestant origin, had settled in Dorset in the sixteenth century; his father was a…
Robert Samuel Ross was born on 5 January 1873 in Sydney, Australia, son of a Scottish compositor, Robert Mitchell Ross, and his English wife, Anne Matilda Bonham. In 1885 he accompanied his parents to Queensland, where…
Charles Robert Thatcher was born in Bristol, England, on 21 August 1830. He was the eldest son of Sophia Matilda Hossey and her husband, Charles Robert Thatcher, a conchologist, a dealer in curios and a Methodist deacon…
Robert (Bob) Chapman, the inaugural professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland, was an academic leader and an insightful and penetrating commentator on current affairs. He was involved in a wide range…
Robert Alexander Falla was born in Palmerston North on 21 July 1901, the son of George Falla, a railway clerk, and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk. The family shifted frequently, Falla's younger years being spent in Hāwera,…
Robert Noble Jones was born at Belfast, Ireland, on 1 August 1864, the son of Robert Jones, a painter, and his wife, Eliza Rae. Brought to New Zealand as an infant, he was educated in public schools in Auckland and…
Robert Holt Carpenter was born in England probably in 1819 or 1820, the son of a cabinet-maker, Edward Carpenter, and his wife, Louisa A'Mutie. He trained as a bookbinder, probably in London, and by subsequent repute…
Robert Arthur Lawson (baptised Robert) was born on 1 January 1833 at Grange, in the parish of Abdie, Fife, Scotland. He was the fourth child of James Lawson, a carpenter, and his wife, Margaret Arthur. Educated at the…
Alexander Robert Entrican was born at Devonport on 28 January 1898, the son of Robert John Entrican, a merchant, and his wife, Annie Isabella Lamb. Known as Pat, he was educated at Auckland Grammar School and in 1915…
Henry Russell – the Robert was added later – was born in the parish of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, on 13 January 1817, the son of Robert Russell, a lawyer, and his wife, Elizabeth Purvis. Little is known about his…
Robert Coupland Harding, as practitioner, historian and critic of printing, has a strong claim to be considered New Zealand's first and most eminent typographer. His father, Thomas Bennick Harding, was himself a printer…
Robert Pānapa Tūtaki (also known as Tūtaki Pānapa Stewart and Robert Tūtaki Pānapa) was born probably in 1887 or 1888 at Ruahāpia on the outskirts of Hastings, the son of Arapera Te Ngaaero and her husband, Pānapa Tuari…
Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw was born on 8 September 1885 in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Jessie Marion Kerr Crookston and her husband, Robert Laidlaw, a hosiery manufacturer. In 1886 the family emigrated…
Ian Cross was a distinguished novelist, journalist, editor, broadcaster and administrator, best-known as the author of The God boy (1957), one of the finest and most enduringly popular New Zealand novels of the…