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… education circles. She had a rich and happy childhood at home and at primary school, but did not enjoy the focus on … women’s voices in meetings. Marie and Jim lived in the same home in Melrose, Wellington, for more than 50 years, and … She observed that she had simply not had the time to do a doctorate earlier. She also visited her first husband’s …
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… Christchurch known as the Avon Loop. This was to be their home for 50 years. Elsie and Jack’s son Keith was born in … 1987, the University of Canterbury awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Literature. In 1992, when she turned 80, the … early 1990s, and the burden of caring for him and running a home occupied most of Elsie’s time. His death in 1996 …
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… were stored in a steel safe at Kaitarakihi, the family homestead at Maxwell. When Rākei died in 1963, Ruka was … presented entirely in Taranaki Māori. He was completing a doctoral thesis on Tītokowaru when ill health overtook him. … They had two daughters. He died on 17 April 1986 at his home in Wainuiomata, survived by Dolly and his seven …
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… to ask if he would teach her. After auditioning at his home at Tremezzo, on Lake Como, Italy, she was invited to … a government translator, who had recently returned from doctoral studies in Germany. A quiet civil wedding took …
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… He completed his theological studies in 1851, graduated doctor of philosophy in 1852 (with a thesis in mineralogy), … Auckland and Nelson provinces, when the Novara sailed for home on 8 January 1859. 'Alone among the Antipodes', he … house on 30 April 1859, before proceeding to Rotorua. The homeward route led via Maketū and Tauranga, where they met …
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… MA in 1926. Initially he was undecided whether to become a doctor or a clergyman, but after theological training at … of future citizens through the care of children in the home. From about 1948 her own experiences and various …
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… to the victorious Team New Zealand yachtsmen who brought home the America’s Cup in 1995, and to many visiting … badly wounded on the Somme in September 1916 and returned home. The family shifted to Auckland when Hugh was about … to the FAO before returning to Oxford in 1963 to submit a doctorate based on his research. His book Māori land tenure: …
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… welfare of the migrants and visited every Presbyterian home on a regular basis. He proved to be a muscular … and moral philosophy. Burns also took great pride in the doctorate of divinity awarded to him by the University of …
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… medal. In that same year, 1975, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University of … in 1981. On 7 August 1980, while moving belongings to a new home at Breaker Bay, Glover fell down some steps, injured …
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… he had no further formal education. In 1920 Pei left his home in the Taumarunui district to work as an interpreter at … Tainui learning were recognised by the award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato in 1968. Pei Te …
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… grounds and endowed the college chapel. He was awarded a doctorate of divinity shortly after his appointment, … and the Hocken Library, Dunedin. John Kinder died at his home in Remuera on 5 September 1903, and was buried in the …
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… Officer of the Crown of Belgium and was granted an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Edinburgh. The … for New Zealand produce and in speeding up the sending home of weary New Zealand soldiers. He also served as a …
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… marriages first lived in Nelson, where Muller worked as a doctor. Mary and Stephen had no further children. Stephen … an epileptic, died in her early twenties at her parents’ home in 1868. Femmina Mary Muller had a keen sense of the …
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… to Lincoln, but Tony refused to move, as his family and home were established in Pinehaven. The DSIR offered him a … 25-year-old daughter Fenella, recently graduated as a doctor, died in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. She and … it might be a new species. He would bring the plant home to grow and observe it closely. His live plant …
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… justice dated from these years. Some time after Hone left home, his father married again. With his second wife, … was immersed in Māori language through kōrero (talk) in his home and waiata (songs) and whaikōrero (speeches) on the … Grant (1992). He was twice awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Literature (University of Otago, 1998, and …
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… Nicola (1950) and Martin (1953). Their Upper Willis Street home was a regular meeting place for Wellington’s young … promote the cause through newspaper articles, meetings with doctors and officials, and public talks. She was the founder … from Doug’s yacht and later from their Marlborough home. Christine later acknowledged that she lacked business …
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… though she always regarded Rātana pā as her ‘real home.’ 1 At some schools she was the only Māori student, and … first at the Ōtaki Sanatorium and then at the family home in Kaiapoi. During this period, she honed her interest … Labour Party and the Rātana movement. There she met fellow doctoral student Denis John Howard Sullivan. By the end of …
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… her career as a college lecturer, Doreen would rush home after a day’s teaching, change into her potting gear … until Roy Cowan designed and built a kiln for her at her home in the late 1950s. There were 69 steps from Harbour … Society of Arts in London in 1981, and awarded an honorary doctorate in literature by Victoria University of Wellington …
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… attempt at a rest cure, Kate Sheppard was advised by her doctors that she would need to spend the winters in the … Sheppard, died in 1930. Kate Lovell-Smith died at her home at Riccarton, Christchurch, on 13 July 1934, and was …
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… of living in Auckland, they settled at Pippa's family home in Emsworth on the edge of Chichester Harbour. They had … again with Team New Zealand in 1995. He received honorary doctorates from Massey University in 1999 and Auckland …
Type: Biography