Hēmi Pōtatau was born on 20 May 1904 at Te Mimi o Te Hiki, Nūhaka, the ninth of 12 children of Hata Pōtatau, also known as Tīpene, and his wife, Te Raita (Taraita) Rore, also known as Te Waimātao. His father had links…
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Content warning: This page contains information that readers may find confronting or distressing, including references to the sexual abuse of children. Commune leader Bert Potter was one of late-twentieth-century New…
John Lishman Potter was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England, on 25 July 1834, the son of Matthew Potter, brewer, and his wife, Catharine Lishman. Apprenticed as a stonemason, he migrated to Victoria, Australia,…
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Thomas Henry Potts, one of New Zealand's earliest conservationists, was born in London, England, on 23 November 1824, the son of Thomas Potts, a gun maker, and his wife, Mary Ann Freeman. He was baptised at Brandon,…
Poutama, of Tangāhoe hapū of Ngāti Ruanui, was born in South Taranaki, probably early in the nineteenth century. He was captured during a Waikato raid and taken to Mauinaina pā, near the mouth of the Tāmaki River. From…
Born in Maungatautari, Waikato, on 8 June 1905, Wiremu Te Ranga Poutapu, known as Piri (Bill), was of the Tainui people Ngāti Korokī. His father was Pouaka Winikerei, a carpenter, and his mother Rangitaau Paraki. The…
Te Iki-o-te-rangi Pouwhare, regarded as a paramount chief in later life, was an authority on Tūhoe history and traditions, and widely respected as a wise and kindly leader. He was born at Te Houhi in the Rangitāiki…
Arthur William Baden Powell was born at Wellington on 4 April 1901, the son of Arthur Powell, a driver, and his wife, Minnie Sablofski. After attending primary schools in Parnell and Mount Eden, he went on to Auckland…
Mary Sadler Powell was born on 14 December 1854 in Methwold, Norfolk, England, the daughter of Mary Sadler and her husband, William Powell, a Wesleyan minister. Mary's father died when she was a child and Mary…
Guy Richardson Powles was born at Otaki, Horowhenua, on 5 April 1905, the son of Jessie Mary Richardson and her husband, Charles Guy Powles, a sawmiller. His father, who had fought in the South African War, was to serve…
Major Albert Rugby Pratt came from a prominent Methodist family in Hobart, Tasmania. His grandfather, William Pratt, was transported to Hobart Town in 1825, became a printer, was pardoned in 1859, and on retirement…
Thomas Simson Pratt is said to have been born in 1797, the son of Captain James Pratt and his wife, Anne Simson. Probably in 1827 he married Frances Agnes Cooper. The places of his birth and marriage are unknown. Thomas…
James Prendergast, New Zealand's third chief justice and the first appointed by a New Zealand ministry, was born in London, England, probably on 10 December 1826 and was baptised there on 3 October 1827. He was the…
Jane Norgate was born on 30 May 1839 at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, England, the daughter of Jane Lidle and her husband, Henry Norgate, an agricultural labourer who preached in his spare time. Jane was the second…
David (also known as Darby) Pretty was born at Okete, near Raglan, New Zealand, on 20 October 1878, the son of Joseph Pretty, a farmer, and his wife, Joanna Kescel. His father had been a member of the Waikato Militia…
Alfred Price was born at France Lynch near Chalford, Gloucestershire, England, on 25 September 1838, the son of Catharine Woolles and her husband, George Price, a brewer who was later a carpenter. He was apprenticed to…
Ian Prior was an influential doctor, activist and art patron. His ground-breaking health surveys in Pākehā and Māori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and in Cook Islands and Tokelau earned him recognition as the…
Ethel Watkins was born on 17 March 1880 in Onehunga, the daughter of Madeline (Magdaline) Rātahi Cochrane and her husband, Bazett (Barrett) Watkins, a millhand. Her mother was the grand-daughter of early Hokianga…
Little is known of the early life of David Proudfoot. He was born in Gilmerton, near Edinburgh, Scotland, probably in 1838 or 1839, the son of George Proudfoot, a coalminer, and his wife, Marion Jack. The family…
Elizabeth Jane Matthews was born at Earls Colne, Essex, England, on 16 August 1862, the daughter of Quakers Rebecca Allen and her husband, William Matthews, a farmer. Known as Eliza Jane, she was educated at the Friends…