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… Westland, New Zealand, on 23 April 1871, the son of William Moore and his wife, Ruth Twigg, who had emigrated from Australia around 1868. William was a miner, later a mining engineer, and George … was born in 1897 but died in childhood), William (1900), Thomas Rangi (1902), Ruth Marie (1904), and Douglass Hinau …
Type: Biography
… Porter. Her maternal grandparents were Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Porter and the high-ranking Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and …
Type: Biography
… in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1808 or 1809, the son of Thomas Jones; his mother's name is unknown. He spent his … and persuaded the chiefs not to sign. He, along with William Charles Wentworth and three other Sydney … 1854, and in 1858 entered into partnership with two sons of William Cargill , John and Edward, operating the …
Type: Biography
… he was handed over as a prisoner to Rāpata and Captain Thomas Porter . On 21 December 1871 Kereopa stood trial at … Kereopa was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. William Colenso appealed unsuccessfully for clemency on the …
Type: Biography
… on 1 June 1877, the son of a radical carpenter, James William Bennett, and his equally radical wife, Charlotte … as a Political Labor Council member. He married Caroline Thomas, an active socialist, at Melbourne on 1 March 1905. … worried him. When the New Zealand Labour Party hired Walter Thomas Mills to preach reformism and unity, Bennett moved …
Type: Biography
… the daughter of Harriet Pepperell and her husband, Charles Thomas Hudson, who changed his name to Palmer in 1813 by … to the time. She, with her husband, the Selwyns, and Sir William and Lady Martin , prepared a 106 page book on the …
Type: Biography
… Lloyd Geering. The beauty of science At the end of his life William Colenso explained his love of science and its … significant ideas in other fields besides theology. William Colenso and Richard Taylor were important early … and barbaric and had to be brought into civilisation. Thomas Kendall accepted that Māori, like all people, were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… King and Kendall The first men chosen as missionaries, William Hall and John King, were tradespeople. They were joined by Thomas Kendall, a primary-school teacher. These men were not … with several of his New Zealand missionaries. One was William Yate, who began working at Paihia in 1826. Ten years …
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Part of story: Missions and missionaries
… Forfarshire, Scotland, on 5 October 1827, the son of Thomas Luckie, a merchant, and his wife, Mary Mitchell. He … to New Zealand to become editor and part proprietor, with William Nation, of the Colonist newspaper in Nelson. He, his … Cross , and from 1 January 1877 was associated with William Berry in the editorship of the New Zealand Herald …
Type: Biography
… politician James FitzGerald to his Executive Council. Thomas Forsaith succeeded FitzGerald in the role. However, … in on 18 April 1856, but was gone by 20 May. His successor, William Fox, was replaced by Edward Stafford on 2 June. In … colonial premiers were artistically inclined. The young William Fox captured the country’s landscape in beautiful …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… Mutunga and Ngati Tama. In 1863 he was replaced by Captain William Thomas. Shand and his family became permanent farming … completed Moriori vocabulary, although the Reverend H. W. Williams probably used this in 1919. Shand's death, and that …
Type: Biography
… children of Eleanor Phoebe Macleod and her husband, James Thomas Smith, a compositor. The family had emigrated from … the family printing business now managed by Lucy's brother William Sidney Smith. Lucy Smith was appointed associate … of the White Ribbon , Mary Jane (Jennie) Smith, the wife of William Sidney Smith, resigned as business manager, and Lucy …
Type: Biography
… of furniture was a large rimu chest made by the missionary William White in Grecian-revival style in the late 1830s. … In the 2000s they were in Kerikeri’s historic Kemp House. William Colenso’s mission house in Hawke’s Bay was furnished … furniture-making business. Hargreaves brought his tools and Thomas King’s 1835 Modern style of cabinet work e …
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Part of story: Furniture
… in Christchurch on 30 October 1901, the son of Frederick Thomas Kerridge, a tram driver, and his wife, Ellen Maude … films. In 1926 he started to buy theatres, with H. B. Williams, of the pioneering missionary and farming family, as his partner and adviser; Williams also became a partner in De Luxe Motor Service. …
Type: Biography
… own house – demolished. The former South District School in William Street (1864) and Brooklands farmhouse at Goodwood … Camp' (Larnach Castle) on the Otago Peninsula, built for William Larnach. An imposing, upright, stone-built … for the design of the Municipal Chambers was won by Thomas Cameron Bedford, but when Lawson was appointed …
Type: Biography
… and the Anglican church opened a (short-lived) school, St Thomas’s. The dominant leader at Papawai was Te Mānihera Te … the leader Nukupewapewa and the local Pākehā settler, William Mein Smith. Unusually, they faced inwards to …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… the ® symbol may be used with it. ‘Sure to rise’ Thomas Edmonds was a Lyttelton grocer who started selling … has a high rainfall, and in 1913 New Plymouth tailor William Broome invented a woollen work shirt with special …
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Part of story: Inventions, patents and trademarks
… W. Stack . Ex-politicians Alfred Saunders , Alfred Cox and William Gisborne wrote about the political history of the … verdict In the tradition of British history-writing, William Gisborne was adept at making judgements on politicians. He wrote of William Swainson that he ‘was an able lawyer, but an …
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Part of story: History and historians
… He joined the administrations of George Waterhouse and William Fox , briefly as commissioner of customs in 1872 and … other talents were not neglected. In 1875 he helped Thomas Bracken launch the Saturday Advertiser , even serving … a short holiday set about justifying his leave. His friend William Chambers published Bathgate's paean to his adopted …
Type: Biography
… to take offence and aggressively self-opinionated. Henry Williams had, in 1835, assessed Morgan as possessing 'a … claimed close friendships with governors George Grey and Thomas Gore Browne . The Ōtāwhao Māori appeared to visiting …
Type: Biography