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Haurongo: Ngāpora, Tāmati

Haurongo tūhonohono

Cameron, Duncan Alexander

1808–1888

Soldier, military leader

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

Ngāpora, Tāmati

?–1885

Waikato leader, lay preacher, assessor, adviser to the Māori King

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

?–1893

Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder

Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa

Te Waharoa, Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi

?–1866

Ngāti Hauā leader, teacher, diplomat

Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (left), Te Waru (centre) and Te Pakaru (right), painted by George French Angas

Te Wherowhero, Pōtatau

?–1860

Waikato leader, warrior, Māori King

Biographies that mention Ngāpora, Tāmati

A political meeting at Huntly, 1898

Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1854 to 1855 (year uncertain)–1912

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King, politician

Rewi Manga Maniapoto photographed by Elizabeth Pulman

Maniapoto, Rewi Manga

?–1894

Ngāti Maniapoto leader, war leader

Ngāpora, Tāmati

?–1885

Waikato leader, lay preacher, assessor, adviser to the Māori King

Tawhiao, the second Maori King

Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

?–1894

Māori King, Waikato leader, prophet

Te Waharoa, Tupu Atanatiu Taingākawa

1844 to 1845 (year uncertain)–1929

Ngāti Hauā leader, kingmaker, King movement leader

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Steven Oliver. 'Ngāpora, Tāmati', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127872/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).