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… the young Archer were Thomas Cooper, an early Chartist, and Robert Hall, an anti-slavery campaigner. Although … the press and criticised as a dangerous revolutionary. Sir Robert Stout , chief justice of New Zealand and chancellor …
Type: Biography
… put her in conflict with male leaders such as John Roberts . She kept the ATU out of the One Big Union … the federation was acting legally and was outraged that Roberts said he would 'go on with the amendments whether …
Type: Biography
… 1900 at Christchurch Jane Harris married Charles Nathaniel Roberts; both were described as teachers. By 1905 they had moved to Auckland where Mrs Harris-Roberts, as she was now known, remained active as a spiritualist teacher long after the death of Charles Roberts in 1920. Like other women who held positions of …
Type: Biography
… intellectuals whose formal expertise lay in other fields. Robert Chapman’s 1953 Landfall essay ‘Fiction and the social …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… Tragedy at Ngakonui In the 1860s four brothers – Peter, Robert, James, and Donald McLaren – settled in Wairarapa, … buying the 15,000-acre farm Ngakonui. Tragedy soon struck. Robert was charged by a horned merino ram and died from his …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… of Selina Rebecca Downes and her husband, John Abraham Roberts Greensill. Her mother died in 1883 and Nina was … pupils. On 16 November 1904 in Picton she married Thomas Robert Barrer, an engineer. The couple lived in Wellington …
Type: Biography
… Canada for the Geological Survey of Canada with his uncle, Robert Bell. He also worked for several companies as a … In 1901 Bell had been offered the position of geologist to Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition. A similar …
Type: Biography
… also supervised the installation of the statue of John Robert Godley in Cathedral Square in September 1866, …
Type: Biography
… of Dunedin’s First (Presbyterian) Church (1873) was Robert Lawson, who used narrow windows and tapering … (1871) and the Bank of New South Wales (1883), designed by Robert Lawson in the Greek temple style. Equally …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… public health and preventing or treating disease. In 1926 Robert Makgill of the Health Department, while visiting … information. These studies, along with major research by Robert Shore and R. L. Andrew of the Dominion Laboratory, …
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Part of story: Medical research
… as the woolsack. Sheep in Britain In the late 18th century Robert Bakewell, manager of the Dishley estate from 1760 to … In 2007, Cheviot numbers were about 12,000. Designer lambs Robert Bakewell systematised livestock breeding. Before his …
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Part of story: Sheep farming
… at Oxford. Rhodes scholars Kenneth Sisam, Norman Davis and Robert Burchfield became part of a so-called ‘New Zealand … John Mulgan before the Second World War and Dan Davin and Robert Burchfield after. More recently, Liz Calder was a …
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Part of story: Creative and intellectual expatriates
… political economy at the University of Otago. He joined Sir Robert Stout in a partnership in Wellington from 1894 until …
Type: Biography
… 1 Fiery word of God One night in 1845, missionary Robert Maunsell was awakened by the howling of a dog. His …
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… a rival university and his doubts were shared by Sir Robert Stout , the minister of education. In the end a …
Type: Biography
… January 1877, daughter of Margaret Wright and her husband, Robert Maurice Urquhart, a ship's steward. In 1880 Robert Urquhart brought his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. …
Type: Biography
… Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, first curator Māori of Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery, in 1991. Māori-led exhibitions … Te Arawa exhibition – Te Korimako Tangi Ata / the New Dawn Robert McDougall Art Gallery promoted a new generation of …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… the daughter of Martha Lydia Warburton and her husband, Robert William Kane, a bank accountant. The family lived in Australia from 1885 to 1899, where Robert managed the Newcastle and Adelaide branches of the …
Type: Biography
… family. In 1844 Kemp was granted 9,276 acres by Governor Robert FitzRoy , but received only 5,276 acres. After many …
Type: Biography
… side of the Lyttelton Harbour entrance, named after John Robert Godley, the founder of the Canterbury settlement. It … Pūrau Bay, 2 km south-east of Diamond Harbour. In 1853–55 Robert Rhodes, from a notable early Canterbury family, built …
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Part of story: Canterbury places