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… than the missionaries. In 1835 he was the interpreter at William White's trial. He was also involved in negotiating land sales, most notably the sale of Horeke to William Stewart and Captain Deloitte in 1826. In addition … society. Self-styled leaders of the community, such as Thomas McDonnell and the Wesleyan missionaries, regarded him …
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… in Tysoe, Warwickshire, England, one of ten children of William Philpott (Philpotts), a farm labourer, and his wife, Mary Ann Wilkins. William lost his job following an industrial dispute, and … listening to a lecture delivered by his school master, Thomas Jolly. After his primary schooling, Alfred was forced …
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… from the CMS missionary Robert Maunsell , although William Woon claimed that Te Mānihera's conversion could be attributed to William Hough, the Wesleyan catechist at Pātea. Te Mānihera … death. After staying for several days with the missionary Thomas Chapman , Te Mānihera, accompanied by Kereopa, …
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… the third son of Elizabeth (Betsy) Chidley and her husband, William Reynolds, a farmer. With members of his family he … On the advice of former Waikato Militia officer Captain William Steele, Thomas Russell, the Auckland financier, formed a syndicate …
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… visited in 1870) was displaced in favour of the politician William Fox as the name for the neighbouring glacier. The … River may be named after the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV. At the local level however, towns have many … Kaipara District), Bowentown in Bay of Plenty, Gore (after Thomas Gore Browne), and Ranfurly. There is a Grey glacier, …
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Part of story: Place names
… oil and watercolour paints. New Zealand’s first art teacher William Bambridge arrived in New Zealand in 1842, one of a … and students with personal tuition. Centennial sculptor William Thomas Trethewey was the first New Zealand-born and-trained …
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Part of story: Arts education and training
… Jury, who was working as a carpenter for the missionary William Williams . In March 1842 Hoani and his parents moved to the … Wikitōria (also known as Sue Materoa) and Muretū William; his second wife was Hera Īhaka Te Moe Whatarau (a …
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… Samuel Smiles's Self-help was his bible, and he shared Thomas Carlyle's dislike of dependence on the state. Like … especially John McKenzie's land legislation. Ballance and William Pember Reeves 's romantic urban radicalism and … leader of the opposition. Unlike the colourless Captain William Russell he did not carry the stigma of being an …
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… youngest of 12 children of Agnes Fearon and her husband, Thomas Samuel Grace , a Church Missionary Society missionary … and a genuine concern for their welfare. Of his brothers, Thomas continued his father's missionary work among the Māori, William was regarded as one of the best scholars of Māori of …
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… in London, England, probably in 1799 or 1800, the son of William Marriott, an optician, and his wife, Alice … instrument maker. Marriott sailed for New Zealand on the Thomas Sparks in July 1842, arriving at Wellington on 31 …
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… The first chemist to study New Zealand’s native plants was William Skey, starting in the 1860s. Then, in the early 1900s, a fruitful partnership grew between Thomas Easterfield, first professor of chemistry at Victoria …
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Part of story: Plant extracts
… FitzGerald was also associated with Lord Lyttelton, Sir William Molesworth, Charles Adderley, Joseph Hume, Richard … resigned after less than three weeks and another attempt by William Fox also failed. The first effective ministry was … to the responsible ministry and had opposed Governor Thomas Gore Browne 's alternative scheme for placing Māori …
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… Butler's few surviving early works, a plaster bust of William Hall-Jones ( c. 1920), indicates that her … Peter Fraser , and the Catholic archbishop of Wellington, Thomas O'Shea . She bequeathed the contents of her studio to …
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… Ngāruawāhia. In the 1870s Laurence and his younger brother, William, also a surveyor, played in several Auckland … Rock specimens that he collected were sent to A. P. W. Thomas , professor of natural science at Auckland University …
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… on 21 July 1855, the son of Mary Chilman and her husband, Thomas King. Newton's parents belonged to the settlement's … of the Plymouth Company and had been a governess in London. Thomas was elected to both the House of Representatives and … from 1861 to 1878. Newton was educated to the age of 16 at William Crompton's school in New Plymouth. He then became a …
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… route to the West Coast than that previously discovered by Thomas Brunner . He combined this with his official duty of … they were to have at least six children. Hannah's father, William Gibbs, was a member of the Nelson Provincial …
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… Stewart Island). Port Nicholson was also charted by Captain Thomas Barnett, commander of the Lambton . Sheet maps A … John Arrowsmith in 1841. Another, less accurate, map by Thomas McDonnell was published numerous times by James Wyld. … sale. Tough work The early surveyors often had a hard time. William Mein Smith, chief surveyor for the Wellington …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… of Robert O'Hara Burke who, along with his co-leader, William John Wills, and three others, perished in the … , Tempsky accompanied a company of rangers, under Captain William Jackson, on an expedition into the Hūnua Range. … of the Māori position at Paparata. He was accompanied by Thomas McDonnell , a fellow subaltern, who was later to …
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… presented to Hirini Te Kani the preserved head of Captain Thomas Lloyd and tried, unsuccessfully, to get him to accept … Bay and looted the abandoned houses of settlers. Bishop William Williams and his family left on 3 April 1865. Ngāi Te Kete, …
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… begun to worship a new god, called Papahurihia; and Henry Williams gave the first clear description in 1834: he noted … encountered his doctrines. He and the Wesleyan missionary William White held a debate at Waimā in April 1835, before … convert; he was baptised by the Wesleyan missionary Thomas Buddle , and took the name Penetana. After his …
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