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… Architect and landscape architect Harry Turbott pioneered an environmentally focused design practice in New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century. His work continually emphasised the designer’s role in protecting, restoring and enhancing the environment. As well as …
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… on 6 August 1869, the second son of William Wright, a Presbyterian missionary, and his wife, Annie McKee. His mother … work in Syria. Annie Wright died in 1877, shortly after the family had moved to London. Wright was educated at the Glascar School, Ballynaskeagh, then at Pope's …
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… Murray Ball created the phenomenally successful ‘Footrot Flats’ cartoon … In book form it sold more than six million copies. It presented an idealised vision of a laid-back, laconic, … rural New Zealand which appealed to both local and international readers. Ball, who saw himself primarily as a …
Type: Biography
… as Maria) was born at St Pancras, London, England, on 15 September 1824, the third child and only surviving daughter of Christopher Richmond, barrister of the Middle Temple, and his wife, Maria Wilson. The …
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… John Burton and his wife, Martha Neal. He was born at Leicester, Leicestershire, England, probably sometime between 1833 and 1835. … Burton had founded the firm of John Burton and Sons, printers and photographers of Leicester, with branches in …
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… father’s Anglican and his mother’s Irish Catholic associates. Len grew up opposed to what he saw as the intolerance of all religions. After Harry died in July 1904, Rose struggled to make a living … Phillip (born in 1903) with a succession of relatives. Despite an insecure and needy childhood, Len developed an …
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… and his wife, Maria Greaves. Although the family shifted to Waihou, near Te Aroha, when James was nine, his upbringing continued to … on a very tough farm life. For two years he did not attend school. In 1883 he was sent as a boarder to the …
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… trade and a man of substance in Nottingham. He was a Dissenter, but never accepted the Unitarian doctrine so strongly propounded in Nottingham's chapels during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He died of typhoid …
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… Sylvia’s mother, Margaret Maxwell, was the daughter of a blacksmith. Born in Mercer, near Auckland, in 1876, she began teaching at the age of 15. Margaret and Francis married in 1898. Shortly after, Francis fell ill with a painful arthritic condition and …
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… industrialists, and the driving force behind Crown Lynn pottery. As one of the fourth generation of Clarks to … tableware in New Zealand. He ran New Zealand’s largest pottery and turned it into a national icon. His zest for … New Zealand’s sailing industries, while his alliance with Peter Blake culminated in New Zealand’s extraordinary …
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… New Zealand mountaineer, a field ecologist and an international authority on sika deer. She made several notable … Davidson excelled throughout her life in male-dominated fields, in both her scientific research career and her personal interests, and was an enthusiastic tramper, skier, …
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… Families, children and employment After the 1999 election the new Labour-led coalition … employed parents with new babies. This was originally initiated by the Alliance Party (one of Labour’s coalition … the normal living standards of society is a recipe for disaster.’ 1 Working for Families In 2004 a Labour-led government …
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… 5 May 1845 in the Ayrshire town of Irvine, Scotland. Registered at birth simply as John Brown, he was the sixth child of Ann Brown and her husband, James Brown, a shipmaster. A woman 'of the true old puritan type' who set a high value on education, Ann Brown saw to it that her daughters attended ladies' schools and her sons the excellent …
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… field botanist. Over his lifetime he built up an extensive knowledge of New Zealand’s flora, through his many … colleagues and hobbyists, inspiring a generation of passionate botanists. Early life Anthony (Tony) Peter Druce was born on 18 June 1920 on the family farm in …
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… Alister Donald Miles McIntosh was born at Picton on 29 November … the eldest of four children of Henry Hobson McIntosh, a telegraphist, and his wife, Caroline Margaret Cowles Miles. From 1920 to 1924 he was educated at Marlborough College, Blenheim, where he took the …
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… Ian Athfield was an award-winning Wellington architect whose practice, Athfield Architects, designed distinctive and innovative houses that challenged suburban norms, as well as celebrated commercial, public and institutional projects. Athfield …
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… of Penzance, and his wife, Mary Veale Thomas, the daughter of a solicitor. Privately educated by a local tutor, Colenso was apprenticed to a printer …
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… Upper Hutt. Her mother, Gwladys Ilma Vile, was a state-registered nurse; her father was Gerald Dempsey, an army major … not learn his identity until she was 20, and never contacted him. As a baby, she had four foster homes before her …
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… and cultural life. Her close collaborations with leading writers helped her work reach audiences far beyond photography … the faces of Māori, vintners, immigrants, artists, writers, actors, craftspeople and musicians. Friedlander’s … of suburban, small-town and rural life pictured her adopted country during a period of radical social change. Many …
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… was a leading figure in the growth of a New Zealand literature during the second half of the twentieth century. He … New Zealand author to earn a good living as a full-time writer, although the stresses of maintaining an income … All his novels and short-story collections were published internationally, several in translation, and though some …
Type: Biography