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… Ernest Robert Godward was born in London, England, on 7 April 1869, the son of Henry Robert Godward, a fireman, and his wife, Sarah Ann Pattison. … He promoted motor racing, and in 1909 with his friend Robert Murie, a fellow balloonist, won a widely reported … Godward, Ernest Robert …
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… According to family information, Robert Henry Wynyard was born on 24 December 1802, at … to George III. After attending a school in Dunmow, Essex, Robert Wynyard followed family tradition in choosing a … Wynyard, Robert Henry …
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… 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 is thought that he was educated … Holmes, Robert West …
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… Robert Atherton Edwin was born at Camden Town, London, … the tradition of practical weather science of which Admiral Robert FitzRoy and the American, Matthew Fontaine Maury, … Edwin, Robert Atherton …
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… Robert Cecil Hayes was born in Wellington on 19 January 1900, the son of Robert Edward Hayes and his wife, Ellen (Nell) Thomas. His … on the 1931 earthquake. On 1 December 1932, at Karori, Robert Hayes married Margaret Wyn Beere. They had two … Hayes, Robert Cecil …
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… Robert Nettleton Field was born in Bromley, Kent, England, … and would have liked his eldest son to follow suit, but Robert showed artistic ability from an early age and his … a portrait painter and provided an early role model for Robert. After winning various scholarships to art schools at …
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… Robert Reid Parris, son of William and Agnes Parris, was … Dorset in the sixteenth century; his father was a farmer. Robert married Mary Whitmore at Colyton, Somerset, on 18 … in England, and two daughters and a son in New Zealand. Robert Parris and his family arrived at New Plymouth, New …
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… Robert Samuel Ross was born on 5 January 1873 in Sydney, Australia, son of a Scottish compositor, Robert Mitchell Ross, and his English wife, Anne Matilda … syndicalism; excerpts from such writers as Henry Lawson, Robert Burns, and William Morris; and the book reviews kept …
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… Charles Robert Thatcher was born in Bristol, England, on 21 August … son of Sophia Matilda Hossey and her husband, Charles Robert Thatcher, a conchologist, a dealer in curios and a … Thatcher, Charles Robert …
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… Robert (Bob) Chapman, the inaugural professor of Political … study and analysis of politics. Early life and education Robert McDonald Chapman was born in Auckland on 30 October … emphatically to emphasise a point. Political commentator Robert Chapman was an innovative, articulate broadcaster on …
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… Robert Alexander Falla was born in Palmerston North on 21 … Burton at Te Aroha on 18 May 1928. From 1922 onwards Robert Falla had used his weekends and holidays to carry out … Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. Robert Falla retired as director of the Dominion Museum in …
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… Robert Noble Jones was born at Belfast, Ireland, on 1 August 1864, the son of Robert Jones, a painter, and his wife, Eliza Rae. Brought to … the First World War. On 29 July 1939 Jones married Patricia Robertson Young at Wellington. He died on 29 June 1942 at … Jones, Robert Noble …
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… Robert Holt Carpenter was born in England probably in 1819 … in a small group of its vocal opponents, with such men as Robert Stokes, the Tory editor of the New Zealand Spectator … Carpenter, Robert Holt …
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… Robert Arthur Lawson (baptised Robert) was born on 1 January 1833 at Grange, in the parish … Lawson, Robert Arthur …
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… Alexander Robert Entrican was born at Devonport on 28 January 1898, the son of Robert John Entrican, a merchant, and his wife, Annie … Entrican, Alexander Robert …
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… Henry Russell – the Robert was added later – was born in the parish of … Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, on 13 January 1817, the son of Robert Russell, a lawyer, and his wife, Elizabeth Purvis. … in January 1843; Henry and two other brothers, John and Robert, followed soon after. Probably in Wellington, …
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… Robert Coupland Harding, as practitioner, historian and … in July 1848. They settled for a time in Wellington, where Robert Coupland (known as Coupland) was born on 19 October … Harding, Robert Coupland …
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… Robert Pānapa Tūtaki (also known as Tūtaki Pānapa Stewart and Robert Tūtaki Pānapa) was born probably in 1887 or 1888 at … Tūtaki, Robert Pānapa …
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… Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw was born on 8 September … the son of Jessie Marion Kerr Crookston and her husband, Robert Laidlaw, a hosiery manufacturer. In 1886 the family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where Robert Laidlaw established a hosiery factory and …
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… Early years Born in Masterton on 6 November 1925, Ian Robert Cross was the youngest of Mary Helen Glentworth and … reviewers as The God boy . Cross then took up the inaugural Robert Burns Fellowship in Literature at the University of … Cross, Ian Robert …
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