Alice Hannah Holford was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 12 November 1867, the daughter of Annie Brooking and her husband, John Henry Holford, a mariner and later harbourmaster. From an early age her ambition was…
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Henry Holland was born in the village of Nafferton, East Yorkshire, England, on 7 December 1859, the son of Ann Robson and her husband, Robert Holland, a farm labourer. The family arrived in New Zealand in October 1863…
Henry Edmund Holland was born on 10 June 1868 at Ginninderra, New South Wales, the second child of farmer Edward Holland and his wife Mary Chaplin. Harry, as he was known, attended a local elementary school until he was…
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Sidney George Holland was born at Greendale, Canterbury, on 18 October 1893, one of eight children of English-born parents Jane Eastwood and her husband, Henry Holland, a farmer. His father later became a Christchurch…
John Ernest Holloway was born in Christchurch on 12 February 1881, the son of John Holloway, a bank manager, and his wife, Anna Thorpe. As a child he was influenced by his father, who was a keen churchman, amateur…
John Thorpe Holloway was born at Oxford, in rural North Canterbury, on 15 November 1914, the son of Margaret Brenda North and her husband, John Ernest Holloway, an Anglican vicar. In 1916 the family moved to Hokitika…
Pehr Ferdinand Holm was born in Arboga, Sweden, on 3 April 1844, the son of Brita Christina Jansdotter and her husband, Johan Holm, a master mariner. Holm gained his first mate's certificate in 1867, and in 1868 sailed…
New Zealand’s first left-wing documentary film-maker, Cecil Holmes achieved notoriety in the late 1940s through the highly publicised exposure of his communist activity as a New Zealand Public Service Association (PSA)…
Freeman Wright Holmes was born on a farm near Ashburton, New Zealand, probably on 6 June 1871, the son of Henrietta Wright and her husband, Thomas Holmes, a farmer. He began his lifelong involvement with horses and…
Paul Holmes was New Zealand’s best-known and most influential late twentieth-century broadcaster, straddling the line between serious current affairs presenter and entertainer. He succeeded in the three mass media…
Robert West Holmes was born in Hackney, London, England, on 25 September 1856, the son of Alice West and her husband, Robert Thomas Holmes, a brewer and (later) engraver. Little is known of Robert's early years, but it…
Robert Holt was born at Oldham, Lancashire, England, probably in 1832 or 1833, the son of Thomas Holt, a millwright, and his wife, Sarah Leech. He served his apprenticeship as a joiner and patternmaker, later working in…
The Holyoake connection with New Zealand goes back to 1843, when the great-grandparents of Keith Jacka Holyoake settled at Riwaka, near Motueka, and it was there that he spent much of his youth and began his farming…
Patricia Laura Te Waikapoata Mathieson was born in New Plymouth on 31 March 1927. Her father, Thomas Berge Tūpeka (Bert) Mathieson, of the Taranaki iwi, was a motor mechanic and later a taxi and bus driver. Her mother…
Hongi Hika was born near Kaikohe, in northern New Zealand: he told French explorers in 1824 that he had been born in the year of Marion du Fresne's death, which was in 1772; and he was a mature man at the height of his…
Mary Lye was born in Martock, Somersetshire, England, and baptised there on 25 December 1822; she was the sixth of 11 children of Grace Rodd and her husband, John Lye, a farmhand on an estate. The squire's daughter…
Joseph Dalton Hooker is said to have been born at Halesworth, Suffolk, England, on 30 June 1817, and was baptised there on 3 July. He was the younger son of Sir William Jackson Hooker and his wife, Maria Sarah Turner.…
Basil Bramston Hooper was born in Lahore, India, on 17 April 1876, the youngest of nine children born to William Hooper and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth (Elisabeth) Candy. William Hooper, an Anglican priest and Church…
Kate Challis Excelsa Hooper was born at Devonport, Auckland, on 25 June 1894 to Sophia Frances Hould and her husband, Richard Henry Hooper, a farmer who later became a journalist. As a girl Challis lived in Wellington…
Henry (Harry) James Hopkins was born on 11 August 1912 in the tiny Western Australian town of Dwellingup, the son of Emma Eliza Watts and her husband, Harold Hopkins, a yard foreman and later forestry department…