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… Thomas Clifton Webb was born on 8 March 1889 at Te Kopuru, Northland, the son of English parents Thomas Webb, a farmer, and his wife, Penelope Martha Massey. … conflict, he emerged with Holland, Keith Holyoake and William Sullivan as one of the big four in the cabinet. Webb …
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… William Bock (the name Rose was added later) was born in … Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), on 5 January 1847, the son of Thomas Bock and Mary Ann Cameron, née Spencer, both of whom … important for his paintings of Tasmanian Aborigines. William served an apprenticeship of 2½ years in Hobart with …
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… Thomas Frederick Anderson was born at Kirkdale, Liverpool, … 30 December 1888, the son of Monica Kelly and her husband, Thomas Weldon Anderson, an actor and comedian. After leaving … Anderson, Thomas Frederick …
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… Thomas Kendall was baptised on 13 December 1778 at North … the need for such a mission. By 1809 two other settlers, William Hall and John King, had been chosen, but it was not … for sale in Sydney, was wrecked off Jervis Bay in a storm. Thomas Kendall pioneered the transcription of Māori; he also …
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… Kenneth Stuart Williams was the youngest of a remarkable quartet of … descendants of the missionary brothers Henry and William Williams . Kenneth, his first cousin Thomas Sydney Williams, and his second cousins, brothers … Williams, Kenneth Stuart …
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… Rotorua, New Zealand, on 16 October 1884, the daughter of Thomas Hope Lewis, a surgeon, and his wife, Ellen Fenton. … December 1905, aged 21, she married 37-year-old Guy Coldham Williams, a sheepfarmer in Wairarapa. His parents, T. C. Williams and his wife, Annie Beetham, both belonged to …
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… Joseph Thomas Ward was born at Chelsea, London, England, on 25 … refractor and in 1904 he and his assistant, local lawyer Thomas Allison, began systematically searching selected … by his wife, four sons and three daughters. One son, William Herschel Ward, was honorary director of the Ward …
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… Thomas Kay Sidey was born at the home of his parents, John … seat in a by-election; two candidates, including William Earnshaw, MHR from 1890 to 1896, split the crucial … Sidey, Thomas Kay …
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… William Swainson was born at Lancaster, England, probably on 25 April 1809, the eldest son of the merchant William Swainson. His mother's name is not known. He was … fellow passengers William Martin , the chief justice, and Thomas Outhwaite, registrar of the Supreme Court. They …
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… William Colenso was born probably on 17 November 1811 and … and town councillor of Penzance, and his wife, Mary Veale Thomas, the daughter of a solicitor. Privately educated by a … 1835. More ambitious was the production of 5,000 copies of William Williams 's Māori New Testament. The first of these …
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… Joshua Strange Williams was born at Paddington, London, England, on 19 … the eldest son of Lucy Strange and her husband, Joshua Williams, a conveyancer who became an eminent barrister and … of New Zealand, the others being James Prendergast and Thomas Gillies. Williams was sent to Dunedin to replace H. …
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… Thomas Jeffery Parker (who was known as Jeffery) was born in … 1850, the eldest son of Elizabeth Jeffery and her husband, William Kitchen Parker, a medical practitioner and noted … At that time he was also collaborating with his brother, William Newton Parker, professor of zoology at the …
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… William Henry Clayton was born on 17 November 1823, at … 12 children of Henry Clayton and his wife, Mary McLaughlan. William was educated at the local Longford Hall Academy, … England on 28 March 1840 on the Adelaide . While in England William Clayton was articled to a prominent architect, and …
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… Thomas Morland Hocken, whose name is perpetuated in the … Also notable were the papers of Edward Shortland , Captain William Cargill , and the Canterbury Association; and two … Place home in Dunedin, survived by his wife and daughter. Thomas Morland Hocken was an early and effective promoter of …
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… Thomas Noel Brodrick (known as Noel) was born to Mary Anne Potts and her husband, Thomas Brodrick, a stock and share broker, at Islington, … sake of Helen's health. She died there on 5 January 1930. Thomas Noel Brodrick died on 12 July 1931 at Martinborough …
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… Thomas Edward Taylor was born on 16 June 1862 in Kirton in … force before the family moved to London in 1867. There Thomas joined the Band of Hope, campaigning against the … these by reading social reformers such as Thomas Carlyle, William Morris, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Edward …
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… William Goodfellow’s acumen, vision and energy contributed … industry in the twentieth century. One of six children of Thomas Goodfellow, a farmer, and his wife, Jane Grace … 26 May 1880. About 1892 the family moved to Auckland where William was educated at Mount Eden School and Auckland …
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… William Robinson was born near Warrington, Lancashire, … according to family information. He was the eldest son of Thomas Robinson, a tenant farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth … services of some able men, including John Jackson Oakden; William Gerard, the manager of Cheviot Hills; and John …
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… William Mathew Hodgkins was baptised in Liverpool, … the city's dockside slums, the first child of a brushmaker, William Hodgkins, and his wife, Jane Grocott or Groocock. … 1859 sailing on the White Star , whose ship's surgeon was Thomas Morland Hocken . He arrived in Melbourne in 1860 and …
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… William Edgar Hazlett was a dominant figure in farming, … and racing in Southland for more than 30 years. His father, William Thomas Hazlett, a merchant with extensive land holdings, had … Hazlett, William Edgar …
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