Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president…
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The son of a carter, Alexander Walker Reid was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 14 September 1853. His parents, Helen Reid and her husband, Alexander Reid, emigrated to New Zealand with young Alexander in 1860…
Donald Reid was born on 16 July 1833 at Newton farm, Pitcastle, in the Strathtay district of Perthshire, Scotland, the third son of Donald Reid, a farmer, and his wife, Margaret McGregor. He was educated at a local…
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Mary Anne Reidy was born on 17 June 1880 in the Kilmihil district of County Clare, Ireland, the fifth of ten children of Mary Sharkey and her husband, John Reidy, a farmer. She grew up in a Catholic family, living with…
Andreas Reischek was born on 15 September 1845 at Linz, Austria, the son of Barbara Danzer and her husband, Andreas Reischek, a collector of shipping fees. His mother died soon after he was born and Andreas was raised…
Rere-ō-maki is thought to have been born at a settlement on the lower reaches of the Wanganui River. Her mother, Titia, was of Te Arawa, and her father, Te Aewa, a notable warrior, was of Ngāti Tūpoho of Te Āti Haunui-a…
Hannah Retter was born two months before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and died as the treaty's centennial was being celebrated. Hers was one of a number of families created along Wellington's west coast by…
Samuel Revans, New Zealand's first commercial printer and newspaper proprietor, was born probably in 1807 or 1808, third of the six children of John Revans, a surgeon of Kennington, London, England, and his wife,…
Ngāpipi Rēweti was an enigmatic and controversial figure. Almost the whole of his recorded life was dominated by competition between Māori living on the Auckland isthmus and European authorities for ownership of land at…
Helmut Herbert Hermann Rehbein was born in Potsdam, Germany, on 15 February 1913, the son of Hermann Carl Heinrich Rehbein, a government clerk, and his wife, Martha Lucie Hedwig Haupt. In 1919 the family moved to Berlin…
Robert Reyburn was born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 4 January 1810, the sixth child of Jean Thomson and her husband, John Reyburn, a bonnet-maker. Little is known of his early life, but he was associated with…
Henry Chidley Reynolds was born on 26 May 1849 at Beeny, St Juliot, Cornwall, England, the third son of Elizabeth (Betsy) Chidley and her husband, William Reynolds, a farmer. With members of his family he arrived in…
Rachel Selina Pinkerton was born in South Australia on 19 December 1838, the eldest of six children of Eleanor Smith and her husband, William Pinkerton. Her childhood, delightfully described in her memoir, Pioneering in…
George Rhodes is said to have been born on 14 July 1816, and was baptised on 16 September 1816 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. He was the seventh child and fourth son of William Rhodes and his wife, Theodosia Maria…
Harold Winston Rhodes was born on 21 July 1905 at Malvern, Melbourne, Australia, the son of Winifred Mary Short and her husband, Thomas Rhodes, a doctor. Winston attended Melbourne High School and then the University of…
Robert Heaton Rhodes was born on 27 February 1861 at Purau, a farming locality on the shore of Lyttelton Harbour, the eldest son of Sophia Circuit Latter and her husband, Robert Heaton Rhodes, a substantial landowner.…
William Barnard Rhodes was baptised in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, on 9 May 1807, the eldest son of Theodosia Maria Heaton and her husband, William Rhodes, a prosperous Yorkshire-born tenant farmer. Rhodes went to…
Edward Richardson was born in London, England, probably in 1830 or 1831, the son of Elizabeth Sarah Miller and her husband, Richard Richardson, a merchant. Edward was educated at the City of London School. He trained as…
Euphemia (Effie) Johnstone was born probably in 1849 or 1850 in Kilmeny parish on the island of Islay, Argyllshire, Scotland. She was the daughter of Susanna Newbigging and her husband, Robert Johnstone, a farmer. Effie…
Dubbed an educational ‘saboteur’ by poet James K. Baxter, Elwyn Richardson was an educator who helped change the practice of teaching and learning in New Zealand schools in the second half of the twentieth century.1 He…