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… Auckland. Here the young Sheehan met military men such as Thomas McDonnell , Arthur Mercer and Gustavus von Tempsky ; … in 1869 as the campaign manager for Superintendent John Williamson . He succeeded his father as the member for the … such as J. D. Ormond , Donald McLean and J. N. and Samuel Williams had swindled them out of many thousands of acres of …
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… Sim was born in Dunedin on 3 November 1890, the son of William Alexander Sim and his wife, Frances Mary Walters. … counsel, the family lived in Wellington. Sim’s father, Sir William Sim, had written two standard legal texts: The …
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… in saving the lives of the surveyors Charles Hursthouse and William Newsham when they were captured by Te Mahuki in 1883 … insurgent Māori. He rescued Hursthouse and marine surveyor Thomas Perham in March 1884 when their boat capsized on the … from the land purchaser Joshua Jones and the land agent William Grace, Wētere, in December 1882, persuaded Rewi and …
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… and orchestra, which he described as ‘a pastiche of Vaughan Williams and Delius’. His English examiner, Percy Buck of … College of Music he studied composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams, counterpoint with his mentor R. O. Morris (whose … or of Stravinsky, could then be heard in London, but Sir Thomas Beecham was conducting Richard Strauss, Sibelius, …
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… abandonment of these claims. While the colonial treasurer, William Fitzherbert , was in England successfully presenting … chancellor. Sixteen months later he succeeded the Reverend Thomas Burns as chancellor, and when in 1871 the university …
Type: Biography
… of the seven children of Bathsheba Brown and her husband, Thomas Marsden. He was baptised at Calverley, near Leeds, on … to prepare the way for ordained missionaries. They were William Hall, a joiner; Thomas Kendall , a schoolmaster; and … opened a further station at Paihia for the Reverend Henry Williams . He also gave what help he could to the infant …
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… When the agents of the New Zealand Company, led by William Wakefield and assisted by the whaler Dicky Barrett … boundaries. The investigation into the company claims by William Spain , appointed by the British government as … a conclusion unfavourable to the Government.' The governor, Thomas Gore Browne , conveyed this opinion to London in a …
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… for the design of St Matthew's Church and afterwards William Fox offered them positions as district surveyors for … died on 10 January 1903. Allen married Sarah Alice Thomas (née Edmeades), a widow, on 11 February 1907 at St …
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… South Otago, on 4 March 1885, the daughter of Christina Thomas and her husband, William James, a rabbiter. Little is known of her early …
Type: Biography
… mark the southern end of the town belt. Early Otago leaders Thomas Burns and William Cargill are both buried in the cemetery. For 30 …
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… not baptised until 1839, taking the name Tāmati Wāka, after Thomas Walker, an English merchant patron of the Church … friendly, too, with the CMS missionaries, especially Henry Williams . By the 1830s Nene was regarded by the European … he was among the 13 Māori leaders who signed a petition to William IV. This was prompted by missionary fears of French …
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… 1837 at Tūranga (Gisborne), the son of Poverty Bay trader Thomas Halbert and Rīria Mauaranui, Halbert's fourth wife. … and also of Rongowhakaata. The child was baptised William Halbert but commonly went by his Māori name, Wiremu Pere (William Bell). He was one of a remarkable group of kin …
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… of Eleanor (Ellen) Sarah Gillon and her husband, Charles William Adams , a surveyor and a talented astronomer. He …
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… he and Emma Bacon were married by his brother, the Reverend William Gibbs Barker, at the parish church of St John, … were born between 1853 and 1858: Mary, Francis, John and William. As the only doctor on the Canterbury Plains in the … of Syphax, and corresponded with the British scientists Thomas Huxley and Richard Owen. He developed some …
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… he exercised much influence and became a close adviser to William Massey . He was knighted in 1912 and appointed to …
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… is said to have been a personal friend of Andrew Fisher and William Morris Hughes. Probably in 1904 Carey arrived in …
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… on 4 March 1901 to Catherine Cameron and her husband, William Edgar Gregory, a printer. She was educated in … committee on the post-primary curriculum which produced the Thomas report, in which it was recommended that homecraft be … services to home science the alumnae commissioned artist William Sutton to paint her portrait to hang at Studholme …
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… 1807 at Newport, Isle of Wight, England, the fifth child of Thomas Sewell, a solicitor, and his wife, Jane Edwards. His … he was premier for only two weeks. His provincialist rival William Fox formed a ministry on 20 May, which in turn … over a week. The first stable ministry was led by Edward William Stafford , with Sewell as colonial treasurer and …
Type: Biography
… subjects was extremely varied, ranging from the missionary Thomas Kendall to the Dunedin eccentric J. G. S. Grant . The …
Type: Biography