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… John Sinclair, the eldest son of Mary Ann Henderson and her … Sinclair, John …
Type: Biography
… Andrew Sinclair was born at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, on 13 April 1794, the son of John Sinclair, a weaver, and his wife, Agnes Renfrew. He … Sinclair, Andrew …
Type: Biography
… Elizabeth McHutchison, usually known as Eliza, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, probably on 26 April 1800. She is said to have been the daughter of Jean Robertson and her husband, the merchant James … Sinclair, Elizabeth …
Type: Biography
… In the second half of the twentieth century, Keith Sinclair transformed how New Zealanders understood … the University of Auckland and initiating the New Zealand Journal of History . Early life Keith Sinclair was born on 5 … Sinclair, Keith …
Type: Biography
… Frederick Sinclaire was born in Papakura Valley near Auckland on 10 July 1881, the son of Irish parents Mary Carson and her … Sinclaire, Frederick …
Type: Biography
… William Livingstone Hatchwell Sinclair was born at Kirkmanshulme near Manchester, Lancashire, England, on 18 February 1880, the son of Eliza Maria Sandford and her … worked in New Zealand as a carpenter and engineer and joined the Volunteer Force. After serving two years in the …
Type: Biography
… Mary Ann Sinclair was born in a raupo hut at Pirinoa, southern Wairarapa, New Zealand, on 29 January 1864. She was the youngest of seven children of Scottish settlers Katherine McCallum and … Sutherland, Mary Ann …
Type: Biography
… 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 … Rhodes, Harold Winston …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand’s centennial The commemoration of the nation’s centennial in 1940 brought people … or working in, universities into an official centennial project which produced 11 book-length surveys and a 30-part … Rise of academic history – 1940 to 1970 …
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Part of story: History and historians
… Futsal is a five-a-side version of football normally played indoors. It is played with … nearly 30,000 futsal players in New Zealand in 2018, a huge jump from just 5,000 players in 2011. Origins Futsal … Futsal …
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Part of story: Football
… Andrew Kennaway Henderson was born in London, England, on 25 May 1879, the son of Andrew Henderson, a commercial clerk, and his wife, Alice … part of the Christchurch artistic and literary scene, joining the Canterbury Society of Arts and counting among … Henderson, Andrew Kennaway …
Type: Biography
… One of New Zealand’s most prolific and widely published poets, William Kendrick … Auckland schools, including Point Chevalier (where Keith Sinclair , poet and historian, became a lifetime friend) and … From 1944 he began to publish poems regularly in journals in New Zealand, Australia, Britain and the United …
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… Tomorrow In July 1934 the first edition of Tomorrow magazine appeared. … early years waned. Wake up, New Zealand As Frederick Sinclaire explained in the pilot issue, Tomorrow was …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… Irāia Te Whāiti, also known as Irāia Te Ama and Te … probably in 1861 or 1862. He was the eldest child of Te Rangihakahaka Te Whāiti and Hine-ki-te-rangi, both of … te Rūri Tuawhitu o Ihowā (the Church of the Seven Rules of Jehovah), founded by Haimona Pātete . Te Whāiti considered …
Type: Biography
… Literature, culture and identity Academic disciplines were not the only sources of intellectual traditions. Much 20th-century reflection on … ways recent novels had revealed Pākehā social mores – a subject at some remove from Chapman’s research as a lecturer in …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… Violet Alberta (Berta) Jessie Watson, one of the first women to achieve high office … Burns, Violet Alberta Jessie …
Type: Biography
… Charles Knight was baptised at Rye, Sussex, England, on 14 July 1808, the youngest child of James and Ann Knight. His father died in 1808 and in 1810 … Knight, Charles …
Type: Biography
… James Rutherford was born in Dunston, near Newcastle upon … in a state of armed truce. As Rutherford’s successor, Keith Sinclair , later pointed out, paradoxically each … Rutherford, James …
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… Where can you see seals in New Zealand? One hundred and fifty … they can move a lot faster than we can. Their strong jaws, and teeth laced with vile bacteria, mean that a bite …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Seals
… Largest centre of Marlborough, in Māori called Waiharakeke, … making it navigable for sea-going vessels. Two traders, James Wynen and James Sinclair, set up in business. As 150-acre (60-hectare) lots …
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Part of story: Marlborough places