Lucy Masey Smith was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 1 June 1861. She was the fifth of six children of Eleanor Phoebe Macleod and her husband, James Thomas Smith, a compositor. The family had emigrated from…
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During the 1920s the citizens of Auckland benefited from a number of munificent bequests given by Marianne Smith. An enigmatic and very private person, she was unusual in that unlike most wealthy women of the time she…
Ronald Joseph Smith was born in Wellington on 2 May 1921, the son of carpenter Joseph Copley Smith and his London-born wife, Mabel Ellen Courcha, a former laundry worker. He was educated at Wellington College, leaving…
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Shirley Smith was a human-rights campaigner and trail-blazing lawyer. As a community activist from the early 1950s she fought for social and political reform, while as a lawyer she spoke for those who had no voice and…
Stephenson Percy Smith was born at Beccles, Suffolk, England, on 11 June 1840, the eldest son of Hannah Hursthouse and her husband, John Stephenson Smith, a timber and corn merchant and later a civil servant. When Percy…
William Mein Smith is said to have been born on 7 September 1799 at Cape Town, South Africa, and was baptised there on 3 October 1799. He was the eldest son of William Proctor Smith, a naval purser, later secretary to…
According to his own account William Walter Smith was born on 14 September 1852 at Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He was the son of Ellen Robson and her husband, Thomas Smith, a gamekeeper. From the age of 13 Smith…
Philip Ashton Smithells was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, on 12 April 1910, the son of Katherine Booth and her husband, Arthur Smithells, professor of chemistry at the University of Leeds. He was educated at…
One of New Zealand’s most prolific and widely published poets, William Kendrick Smithyman was born on 9 October 1922 in Te Kopuru, a milling town near Dargaville, Northland. He was the only child of William Kendrick…
Annie Smyth was born on 25 October 1878 at Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, the seventh of ten children of currier Edward Smyth and his wife, Isabella Cansick. The family attended the Wesleyan Methodist church. However, in…
Charles Gordon Smyth was born in Oamaru, New Zealand, on 17 April 1883, the son of Irish parents William Smyth, a baker, and his wife, Jane Macaffee. Charles excelled in school and at sports. He worked for some years in…
Ted Smyth was a landscape architect of international repute. His contribution to New Zealand’s late twentieth-century landscape design is exemplified in a series of Auckland gardens he designed and implemented. He…
Patrick Smyth was born at Pungaere, Bay of Islands, on 21 October 1893, the ninth of eleven surviving children of Irish-born Patrick Francis Smyth, a farmer, and his wife, Katherine Mangu Wheoki. His mother was from…
George and Louisa Snelson are remembered as the father and mother of Palmerston North. Together, they were associated with founding or initiating most of the institutions and civic projects in the town during the 1870s…
Sarah Ellen Oliver Murphy was born on 16 February 1864 in Wellington, the daughter of Jessie Flighty and her husband, Michael James Murphy, a corporal in the Wellington Province Armed Police Force, who had arrived in…
Miriam Bridelia Cummings was born at Thames on 15 June 1879, one of eight children of Irish-born Matthew Cummings, a carpenter, and his Scottish wife, Annie Cunningham. The couple solved the problem of their different…
Hārata Ria Te Uira Parata was born at Ōtaki on 22 January 1925, the daughter of Nātanahira Te Umutapu Wī Te Kākākura Parata, a farmer, and his wife, Ōriwa Tuini Horomona. Her paternal grandfather was Wiremu Te Kākākura…
According to family tradition, Tame Horomona Rehe, subsequently and better known as Tommy Solomon, was born at Waikaripi on Chatham Island on 7 May 1884. He was the only surviving child of Rangitapua Horomona Rehe and…
Gwendolen Lucy Alley was born in Springfield, North Canterbury, on 16 November 1894, one of seven children of Frederick James Alley and his English-born wife, Clara Maria Buckingham. Frederick Alley was a primary school…
Hugh Crawford Dixon Somerset (known as Crawford) was born in Belfast, North Canterbury, on 29 August 1895. He was the eldest of four children of Jane Dixon and her husband, George Crawford Black Somerset, a blacksmith…