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Ākenehi Hei, occasionally called Agnes by her Pākehā employers, was born probably in 1877 or 1878 into a leading Te Whakatōhea and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui family at Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty. Her mother was Maria Nīkora; her…

Part of: Hei, Ākenehiauthored byPatricia A. Sargison, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Stuart (Te Tūati) Meha was born at Wanstead, Hawke’s Bay, probably on 29 December 1878. His father, Arapata Meha, a prominent member of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Ruatōtara of Rangitāne, was a successful sheepfarmer and…

Part of: Meha, Stuartauthored byPeter J. Lineham, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Henry Matthew Stowell was born at Waimate North, Bay of Islands, according to his own account on 4 February 1859, the son of John Shephard Stowell, a sawyer who had come to New Zealand from the United States, and his…

Part of: Stowell, Henry Matthewauthored byP. J. Gibbons, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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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

Piipi Raumati Tiopira, also called Phoebe, was born at Waihou, Hokianga, probably sometime between 1857 and 1862, the youngest of five children of Te Roroa leader Tiopira Kīnaki (also known as Tiopira Te Rurunga,…

Part of: Cummins, Piipi Raumatiauthored byGarry Hooker, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Turikatuku was the daughter of Mutunga II, and belonged to Te Hikutū and Ngāti Rēhia, who were related to Ngāpuhi; their territories stretched north from Te Puna and Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands towards Whangaroa.…

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

Te Pareihe of Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) began his career as a war leader in the early nineteenth century. He was also known as Pareihe Kai-a-te-kōkopu and as Hōri. The identity of his parents is…

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

Alice Mary Stanton was born in Auckland on 7 August 1914, the second of five children of Marjorie Aileen McMaster and her husband, Joseph Stanton, a solicitor and ultimately a Supreme Court judge. Educated at Hilltop…

Part of: Bush, Alice Maryauthored byLinda Bryder

Alfred Augustus Grace was the youngest of 12 children of Agnes Fearon and her husband, Thomas Samuel Grace, a Church Missionary Society missionary who lived among the Māori of the Taupō region. Although Alfred was born…

Part of: Grace, Alfred Augustusauthored byNelson Wattie

Te Mamaku, a chief of Ngāti Hāua-te-rangi, was born probably in the late eighteenth century, at Makakote, near the junction of the Whanganui and Retaruke rivers. His father was Te Ora Kairākau, and his mother was…

Part of: Te Mamaku, Hēmi Tōpineauthored byDavid Young, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Wahanui Huatare, also known as Reihana Te Huatare, Te Reihana Whakahoehoe and Te Wahanui, was born probably in the late 1820s. He was the son of Te Ngohiteārau, also known as Te Huatare, of Ngāti Maniapoto. His mother,…

Part of: Wahanui Huatareauthored byManuka Henare, 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

Edward (Ned) Pōhau Ellison was born on 26 November 1884 at Waikanae, near Wellington. Also known as Pōhau Erihana, he was the 11th of 12 children of Rāniera (Daniel) Tāheke Ellison, a farmer, and his wife, Nani Weller (…

Part of: Ellison, Edward Pōhauauthored bySean Ellison, Thomas Brons, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Ngāwaka Taurua was a member of Pakakohe, a hapū of Ngāti Ruanui who lived at Hukatere, south of the Pātea River in South Taranaki. The names of his parents are not recorded. He also had connections with another Ngāti…

Part of: Taurua, Ngāwakaauthored byIan Church, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Harry Delamere Barter Dansey was born in Greenlane, Auckland, on 1 November 1920, the eldest of four children of Harry Delamere Dansey and his wife, Winifred Patience Barter. His father was a civil engineer, and is…

Part of: Dansey, Harry Delamere Barterauthored byH. R. Dansey, Te Rina Dawn Dansey, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Kepa Hāmuera Ānaha Ehau was born on 5 November 1885 at Ōtewā, a small community south-east of Ōtorohanga in the King Country. At the time of Kepa’s birth Te Kooti and his Ringatū followers were living at Ōtewā. They…

Part of: Ehau, Kepa Hāmuera Ānahaauthored byManu H. Pene, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Himiona Tūpākihi Kāmira, sometimes known as Tākou, was born in 1880 at Reena in north-western Hokianga. He was to live there, or at Mātihetihe, on the coast south of Mitimiti, most of his life. His father, Tūpākihi…

Part of: Kāmira, Himiona Tūpākihiauthored byHenare Arekatera Tate, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

James Malcolm Mason was born in the Scottish fishing port of Arbroath, Forfarshire, on 22 August 1864, the son of Sarah Malcolm and her husband, Thomas Mason, a railway labourer who later became a librarian. In the…

Part of: Mason, James Malcolmauthored byDerek A. Dow

Pinepine Te Rika was born probably in 1857 or 1858 at Rāhitiroa, an old settlement of Ngāti Kuri just east of Te Waiiti, in the Bay of Plenty. Her father was Te Rika Te Wheura (sometimes known as Te Mīkaera Te Rika or…

Part of: Pinepine Te Rikaauthored byPou Temara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hepi Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino was the seventh paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, part of a line that traced its ancestry to the tohunga of Te Arawa canoe, Ngātoroirangi. His grandfather, Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V, had…

Part of: Te Heuheu Tūkino VII, Hepi Hoaniauthored byAlex Frame, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team