George Edward Gordon Richardson, known as Geordie, was born at Hampton Wick, Middlesex, England, and baptised there on 5 February 1835. He was the second child of Jane Douglas McWilliam and her husband, Thomas Henry…
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George Spafford Richardson was born at Ashton, Northamptonshire, England, on 14 November 1868, and registered as the son of Mary Ann Richardson. He later declared his parents to be Mary Ann Baxter and George Richardson…
The artist H. Linley Richardson is best known for his vivid realist portraits of notable New Zealanders posed against their local environments. Born Harry Linley Richardson on 19 October 1878 at Peckham Rye, Surrey,…
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John Larkins Cheese Richardson, the son of Robert Richardson and his wife, Mary Anne Romney, was born on 4 August 1810 in Bengal, India, and was baptised at Calcutta. His father, an East India Company civil servant,…
Lancelot Eric Richdale was born on 4 January 1900 at Marton, the eldest child of Alfred Richdale and his wife, Amy Stewart. Alfred became associated with Oscar A. Multon and Frank Stewart in a cordial-manufacturing…
According to family information Christopher William Richmond was born in London, England, on 12 July 1821, the son of a barrister, Christopher Richmond, and his wife, Maria (Lely) Wilson. The major influence on his…
Dorothy Kate Richmond was born on 12 September 1861 at Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, the third of five children of Mary Smith and her husband, James Crowe Richmond, a notable colonist and politician. Known throughout…
The son of Christopher Richmond, a barrister, and his wife, Maria Wilson, James Crowe Richmond was born in London, England, on 22 September 1822. He was educated at the Hackney Grammar School; at Hove House, Brighton;…
Mary Elizabeth Richmond was born at New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 30 August 1853. Her parents, Christopher William Richmond, a barrister, and his wife, Emily Elizabeth Atkinson, had emigrated from England with others of…
Norman Macdonald Richmond was born in Wellington on 23 October 1897, the son of Flora Hursthouse Macdonald and her husband, Maurice Wilson Richmond, a barrister and later a professor of law at Victoria College. Norman…
William Richmond was born at Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland, on 8 August 1869, the son of Thomas Orr Richmond, a farmer, and his wife, Catherine (Kate) Stewart. William left school at the age of 13 and emigrated…
Tuaiwa Rickard, known in her public life as Eva Rickard, was an influential figure in the Māori land rights movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. She showed courage and determination in negotiating the return of Te…
William Riddet was born on 16 March 1896 in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, one of five sons and two daughters of Lillias Tweed Miller and her husband, Robert Lang Riddet, a farmer who was active in kirk and community…
Edward Joshua Riddiford was born on 7 August 1842 at the Hutt, Wellington, the third of 12 children of Harriot Stone and her husband, Daniel Riddiford, an emigration agent in the New Zealand Company. Around 1845 the…
Hans Madsen Ries was born at Stenderup, Haderslev, Denmark, on 5 December 1860, one of 18 children of Andreas Madsen Ries, a farmer, and his wife, Kjestine Marie Hansen. After an education in public schools, Hans became…
John Rigg was born at St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, on 1 November 1858, the son of Catherine Campbell Leckie and her husband, John Rigg, an accountant. The family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1863 or 1864,…
Theodore Rigg was born at Settle, Yorkshire, England, on 6 April 1888, the son of Hannah Wilson and her husband, John Rigg, a merchant and a staunch Quaker. Two years later he went to New Zealand with his parents, who…
Wiremu Rikihana was born at Kaiawe, near Waireia, northern Hokianga, in 1851. He was of Ngāti Te Reinga of Waihou, and Te Rarawa; his hapū, Te Tāwhiu, was prominent in the north. His mother's name was Hārata. His father…
Ātareta Kāwana Rōpiha Mere Rikiriki, born probably in 1855 or 1856 and known as Mere Rikiriki, was the daughter of Kāwana Rōpiha (also known as Kāwana Hūnia) of Ngāti Tauira, and Mere Rikiriki of Ngāti Te Rangitepaia.…
Arthur Dewhurst Riley was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England, on 18 February 1860, the son of Reuben Dewhurst Riley, a master house-painter, and his wife, Jane Miller. Arthur attended local schools before going to…