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… Lancashire, England, on 22 June 1845. His father was Thomas Seddon, headmaster of Eccleston grammar school, who … a period at the Victorian government railway workshops at Williamstown, he prospected on the Bendigo goldfields, with … in 1865 or early 1866. Her late father had run a ferry at Williamstown. The family appears not to have given much …
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… was born on 4 January 1898 at Murchison, the daughter of Thomas Bell, a farmer, and his wife, Eliza Sheat. She began … moved to Nelson, where he became the mayor of Richmond. Thomas Bell married Jessie McNee, the postmistress at … before her marriage. In 1929 Bell was awarded the William Gibson Research Scholarship for Medical Women of the …
Type: Biography
… by letter with the expatriate South African writer William Plomer. In the late 1940s, however, he had a major … from grace of the nineteenth century Anglican missionary Thomas Kendall . They were produced in Auckland in 1961 and …
Type: Biography
… or education. It is likely that he was baptised by William Colenso or William Ronaldson of the Church Missionary Society. He may … have been self-educated, but could have been a pupil at St Thomas's College at Papawai between 1860 and 1864. In the …
Type: Biography
… he was engaged by Julius Vogel to join Ebenezer Fox and Thomas Bright on the staff of the Otago Daily Times. Bell's … Sun on 16 November 1868, assisted by Fox and backed by William Henningham of the Evening Star. Bell, meanwhile, …
Type: Biography
… him in 1942 to be one of the joint secretaries of the Thomas committee, which produced the blueprint for the …
Type: Biography
… as New Zealand's major wheat-producing province, he joined William Royse in a grain-exporting business called Royse, … were to have three sons and one daughter. The Steads bought Thomas Duncan's house, Strowan, on Papanui Road in 1890. …
Type: Biography
… best-known charitable trusts resulting from a will is the Thomas George Macarthy Trust, which first distributed funds … Department of Internal Affairs. Stringent requirements William Georgetti left assets in his will to fund a …
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Part of story: Inheritance
… and other Te Ihutai leaders, he and a partner, probably Thomas Herbert Kelly, were given land and a small house. The … against the Treaty of Waitangi when Lieutenant Governor William Hobson brought it to Hokianga in February 1840. …
Type: Biography
… the Jesuit college in Lancashire endowed by his grandfather Thomas Weld, Frederick enrolled in 1841 at the university of … followed the example of his cousins, Charles Clifford and William Vavasour, and sailed from Plymouth on the Theresa on …
Type: Biography
… 1921, the eldest child of Mary Grandison and her husband, Thomas Herbert (Bert) Biggs. Through their father, Bruce and … poetry, and contributed many hours to the revision of H.W. Williams ’ Dictionary of the Maori language as a member and …
Type: Biography
… he had seen on a trading trip to Auckland. The missionary Thomas Grace , who considered him to be one of his more promising pupils at William Williams 's Whakatō mission, believed the name to have been …
Type: Biography
… Shetland, Scotland, the eldest of the six children of Thomas Stout, a merchant, and his wife, Margaret Smith. His … up law. In 1867 Stout was articled to the legal office of William Downie Stewart. He completed his articles in three … activities. Stout's law firm acted for a group led by William Larnach which planned to float the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… 1882. He was the son of Mary Ann Reid and her husband, William Hart, a labourer. Between 1887 and 1895 Hart … solicitor in 1907 and began practising in Carterton with Thomas Maunsell. In 1907 Herbert Hart was elected a …
Type: Biography
… numeracy and general reliability, Resident Magistrate William Thomas appointed Tapu tidewaiter at Ōwenga in the mid 1860s. …
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… questions earned him appointment, along with W. L. Rees and Thomas Mackay, to a comprehensive commission of inquiry into … passionately Māori. In the long-running battle with William Herries , opposition spokesman for Māori affairs, … of a memorial to his longstanding political opponent, William Herries, the two having become friends in later …
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… Te Wheoro, who was later also known as Wiremu Te Mōrehu (William Morris) or Rehu, and also as Maipapa, was born in … who was sent as resident magistrate to Waikato by Governor Thomas Gore Browne , until Fenton was recalled in 1858. He …
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