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… were the daughters of Mary Reilly and her husband, Thomas John Mulvany; both parents had private means. Sybil … left money to ensure that they completed their education. Thomas Mulvany died in 1919, three years after remarrying, … on alone for another seven months. Josephine married William Charles Daniel Glasgow, at St Benedict's Church, …
Type: Biography
… In April 1848 Ōraukawa wrote to the Wesleyan missionary William Woon, at Heretoa station at Īnaua, asking Woon to … time. On 18 October 1866 his village was attacked by Major Thomas McDonnell 's Native Contingent, who killed four men …
Type: Biography
… is said to have been born in 1834 or 1835. His father, Thomas Halbert , was a trader of English descent who settled …
Type: Biography
… He discussed aspects of this new faith with Colonel Thomas Porter , who published a serialised biography of Te …
Type: Biography
… the son of Elizabeth Emily Hickman and her husband, William Blomfield, a cutler, was born on 5 January 1848 in … a young widow with eight children (the eldest son, William, had died in 1856). She managed for five years, but … were both interested in their church work and helped Thomas Spurgeon to build the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle; …
Type: Biography
… revolutionary, he was a staunch ally of Minister of Labour William Pember Reeves . Although his anti-militarism caused …
Type: Biography
… mission at Taupiri. Then in November 1861 the premier, William Fox , sent Gorst to inspect government-subsidised … and magistrate in Waikato, Gorst believed that if Governor Thomas Gore Browne had consistently applied law and order to …
Type: Biography
… Ngāti Naunau. Tāraia himself arranged timber contracts with William Webster and a man called McCormick (possibly William Eppes Cormack) on the Ōpitonui block, land to which … Tāraia did not sign the Treaty of Waitangi. When Major Thomas Bunbury presented the treaty to the Coromandel chiefs …
Type: Biography
… by this name, but he was unusual. In 1854 for example, Thomas Cholmondeley, an English visitor, noted that ‘the New … the phrase ‘colonial experience’ which, as the politician William Pember Reeves noted, ‘means the rapid power of …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… for Māori in New Zealand was established by the missionary Thomas Kendall of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, at … the schools declined after the early 1840s. Books for all William Colenso had established a printing press at Paihia, …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… between Pākehā whalers and Māori women. Hannah's father, Thomas Stickle, traded between Sydney and the Cook Strait … Retter took up work on the large Rangitikei estate owned by William Waring Taylor, but in 1886 came a chance for …
Type: Biography
… Wales troopers who had accompanied Lieutenant Governor William Hobson to New Zealand earlier in the year. For a … However, the new police magistrate at the Bay of Islands, Thomas Beckham, had this appointment rescinded, so Woods …
Type: Biography
… living in his village, Motuiti, downstream from Kerikeri; Thomas Kendall and John King visited him there on 21 … at Māhia; the people of Tokomaru Bay wanted CMS missionary William Williams to induce him to make peace with them, ending a …
Type: Biography
… at the conclusion of the Taranaki war. However, Governor Thomas Gore Browne was planning an invasion of Waikato to … was profound: it was Duncan Cameron at Pāterangi, not William Hobson at Waitangi, who sounded the death-knell of …
Type: Biography
… , decided to adopt Victorian methods of policing. William Fenwick, a provincial councillor, negotiated for the … had quickly evolved into a military force but by the time William Fox 's ministry came into office in June 1869 the … gave the commissioner and his Auckland inspector, Thomas Broham, many a headache. So too did the calibre of …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand press made important services to literature. Thomas Bracken, author of the lyrics for the national anthem … to the Christchurch Press . Historians such as William Pember Reeves and Thomas Lindsay Buick developed … ‘Whim Wham’. From left to right English-born journalist William Lane edited labour-movement papers in Queensland and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Newspapers
… initial setbacks, which included the death of his cousin William Curling Young, an unsuccessful farming venture, and … the aftermath of the Wairau affray. He applauded Governor Thomas Gore Browne 's handling of the Waitara purchase in … had always been a precarious ministry. Domett clashed with Thomas Russell and Frederick Whitaker in particular, the two …
Type: Biography
… by his own initiative and by contacts with men such as Dr Thomas Ralph, James Hector and George Grey. In 1858, when …
Type: Biography
… his talent blossomed under the powerful mentoring of Thomas Hunter , then professor of mental and moral …
Type: Biography
… his father’s death, young Charles Caparn was in the care of William Jones, a well-known Launceston watch and clockmaker. In San Francisco Catherine met William Henry Foley, a charismatic clown, circus proprietor … now known) was living in Liverpool where he and his brother Thomas had set up in business as ale and porter retailers. …
Type: Biography