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Te Tāite Te Tomo was born probably in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki. His grandmother, Te Rerehau, a woman of chiefly rank of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, married Te Tomo (also called Tute) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Raukawa. Te Tomo…

Part of: Te Tomo, Te Tāiteauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Whina Cooper was born Hōhepine (Josephine) Te Wake at Te Karaka in northern Hokianga on 9 December 1895. Her father was Heremia Te Wake, a leader of Ngāti Manawa and Te Kaitutae hapu of Te Rarawa and the…

Part of: Cooper, Whinaauthored byMichael King, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett was born at Rotorua on 27 July 1913, one of 19 children of Frederick Augustus Bennett of Ngāti Whakaue of Te Arawa, and his second wife, Arihia Ngārangioue (Rangioue) Hēmana (or Pōkiha…

Part of: Bennett, Charles Moihi Te Arawakaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Kīngi Matutaera Īhaka was born at Te Kao, Northland, on 18 October 1921. His great-grandfather, Parāone Ngāruhe, signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of Te Aupōuri. Kīngi was the 13th of 14 children of Eru Tīmoko…

Part of: Īhaka, Kīngi Matutaeraauthored byKingi Ihaka, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

A direct descendant of Ngāti Te Whiti and Ngāti Tāwhirikura chiefs who controlled Petone, Ngauranga and Thorndon at the time of the Treaty of Waitangi, Mākere Rangiātea Ralph Love epitomised the tradition of chiefly…

Part of: Love, Mākere Rangiātea Ralphauthored byCatherine Love, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tūmate Mahuta was born, probably in July 1893, at Waahi pā, near Huntly. He was the third surviving son of Mahuta, the third Māori King, and his wife, Te Marae. His elder brothers were Te Rata, the fourth King, and…

Part of: Mahuta, Tūmateauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Mereana Tōpia, better known as Maria, and her daughter Hēni Hoana or Jane Tōpia, were outstanding leaders in their local communities. Among their many activities they fostered the practice of traditional Māori arts and…

Part of: Tōpia, Hēni Hoana and Tōpia, Mereanaauthored byAgnes Patricia Daley, Janie Topia, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hoani Parāone (Brown) Tunuiārangi was born probably in 1843 or 1844 in the Whakatomotomo valley near Palliser Bay in southern Wairarapa. It is thought that his father, John Robert Brown, was a whaler, possibly one of…

Part of: Tūnuiārangi, Hoani Parāoneauthored byAngela Ballara, 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

Pēpene Eketone was born probably in 1855 or 1856, possibly in the Mōkau district of north Taranaki. His parents were Hōne Eketone and Hera Mahina, both of Ngāti Maniapoto. Pēpene Eketone was of Ngāti Uekaha and various…

Part of: Eketone, Pēpeneauthored byAngela Ballara, 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

Hōne Riiwi Tōia was born probably sometime between 1858 and 1860 at Waimate North in the Bay of Islands. His grandfather was a Jewish trader called Levy (Riiwi), who, in different family traditions, jumped ship at…

Part of: Tōia, Hōne Riiwiauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

James Clendon (Himi Te Nana) Tau Hēnare was born at Mōtatau in the Bay of Islands on 18 November 1911, the youngest of six sons and one of eight children of Hera Paerata and her husband, Taurekareka (Tau) Hēnare, then…

Part of: Hēnare, James Clendon Tauauthored byPuna McConnell, Robin C. McConnell, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pineāmine Taiapa was born at Tikitiki on the East Coast on 6 June 1901. His mother, Maraea Te Iritawa, and his father, Tāmati Taiapa, were of Te Whānau-a-Hinerupe, a hapū of Ngāti Porou. His mother was also connected to…

Part of: Taiapa, Pineāmineauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tāwhiao, of Ngāti Mahuta in the Tainui confederation of tribes, was the son of Waikato leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero and Whakaawi, Pōtatau's senior wife. He was born at Ōrongokoekoeā on the upper Mōkau River towards the…

Part of: Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowheroauthored byR. T. Mahuta, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Pairi Tūterangi was born probably in the 1840s at Maungapōhatu, in the heart of the Urewera country. Through his father, Tūterangi, he had connections to Tamakaimoana of Maungapōhatu, Te Whakatōhea of Ōpōtiki and…

Part of: Te Pairi Tūterangiauthored byPou Temara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Early life Hone Peneamine Anatipa Te Pona Tuwhare was born on 21 October 1922 at Kokewai, a rural area south-east of Kaikohe, Northland. He was of Ngāpuhi descent, with connections to Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāti Tautahi, Te…

Part of: Tuwhare, Honeauthored byJanet Hunt, Te Haumihiata Mason

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

James Keir Baxter was born on 29 June 1926 at Nurse Ross’s maternity home, Dunedin, the second son of Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter, an Otago farmer, and his wife, Millicent Amiel Macmillan Brown. His brother,…

Part of: Baxter, James Keirauthored byPaul Millar

Wī Pere was born on 7 March 1837 at Tūranga (Gisborne), the son of Poverty Bay trader Thomas Halbert and Rīria Mauaranui, Halbert's fourth wife. Rīria was a woman of considerable mana, predominantly of Te Whānau-a-Kai…

Part of: Pere, Wiremuauthored byAlan Ward, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team