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… the Royal College of Music, London, where Ralph Vaughan Williams was his principal composition tutor. Here he …
Type: Biography
… at Gisborne with a contingent of Ngāti Porou. He and Thomas Porter (now a colonel) were appointed by the …
Type: Biography
… sensibility was evident in his finely crafted biographies, William Pember Reeves: New Zealand Fabian (1965) and …
Type: Biography
… – and as an opera (1915). In April 1909 a promoter asked Thomas Donne of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts … of 40 Māori performers and their manager, Pākehā journalist William Farmer Whyte, departed Wellington for San Francisco. …
Type: Biography
… was his natural mother. She had married Peter's father, William Henry Buck, at Urenui, Taranaki , in the early … a near relative, Rina, came into the household to provide William Buck with a child. Rina died soon after Peter was …
Type: Biography
… England, in 1883, and trained as a physiotherapist at St Thomas’s Hospital in London during the First World War. She … way as his forebears had done when they invited Governor William Hobson to establish the town of Auckland on their …
Type: Biography