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… Ngāti Kahungunu in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) through his mother, Te Rotohenga, also known as Winipere. Winipere married … generation. He was the brother-in-law of Tāreha, one of the great leaders of Ngāti Kahungunu. He was the leading man of … to Pākōwhai and remained there in a state of sadness and depression. After further threats of writs, Karaitiana …
Type: Biography
… was born in Waterford, Ireland, on 26 September 1792, the third of five sons of Samuel Hobson, a barrister, and … of Sir Edward Owen, who referred to him as 'an officer of great merit and intelligence'. After a time in England he … on the British Treasury. High land prices and economic depression inevitably led to settler unrest, fomented in …
Type: Biography
… his name. He was also a teacher, facilitator and editor of the work of others, and a social commentator and writer of … and of his mother’s domestic skills which, even during the Depression, ensured that he and his siblings ‘were better … firmly established him as a New Zealand historian of the greatest stature. It was a landmark project which brought …
Type: Biography
… In the second half of the twentieth century, Keith Sinclair … worked as a shipping clerk, then lost his job during the Depression of the early 1930s, before working as a … Zealand and New Zealanders. This approach diverged from the greater emphasis on the importance of the British …
Type: Biography
… born on 28 September 1844 at Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, the eldest of the six children of Thomas Stout, a merchant, … Stout's formidable debating skills stood him in great stead, although he sometimes offended less skilful … Hopes that Vogel would succeed in conjuring away the depression were soon dashed. The ministry survived, in the …
Type: Biography
… James Macandrew, the son of a merchant, Colin Macandrew, and his wife, … him home across the harbour. Macandrew had always been as great an advocate of growth as Vogel. He advanced the cause … to borrow and spend despite the gathering clouds of depression. He retained his faith in expansion; however, …
Type: Biography
… near St Helens, Lancashire, England, on 22 June 1845. His father was Thomas Seddon, headmaster of Eccleston grammar … married Jane Lindsay, a Scot from Annan, Dumfriesshire, and the teacher at the Eccleston denominational school. When she … the railway workshops where he established a reputation for great physical strength and a fondness for demonstrating it: …
Type: Biography
… born probably in London, England, on 20 March 1796. His father, Edward Wakefield, was a farmer and land agent, who had … as well as to build up a fund which would permit the greatest possible number of wage-earners to emigrate free of … 1855. Although he slowly recovered, he lapsed into a deep depression. Until his death on 16 May 1862 he took no …
Type: Biography
… Nepali Tenzing Norgay, as part of a British team, reached the 8,848-metre summit of Mt Everest, the world’s highest … . Hillary’s achievements on Everest and in Antarctica were greatly respected, but it was his subsequent humanitarian … daughter, Belinda. The bereft Hillary descended into depression and drinking. Not until two years later did he …
Type: Biography
… Ireland, and his wife, Anne Tytler. Stafford grew up in the leisured, sporting world of an Anglo-Irish gentry family … county and to give Timaru a board of Works. The ministry’s greater problems were the expensive war it had inherited, … punishment for its war management, the economic depression, and the steady reduction of the provinces’ …
Type: Biography