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Haurongo: Tūroa, Te Peehi

Haurongo tūhonohono

Hadfield, Octavius

1814 (year uncertain)–1904

Missionary, bishop

Spain, William

1803–1876

Land claims commissioner

Taylor, Richard

1805–1873

Missionary, naturalist, writer

Group portrait of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Whātua chiefs

Te Heuheu Tūkino II, Mananui

?–1846

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader

An 1845 pencil sketch of Te Rauparaha by Edward Abbott

Te Rauparaha

?–1849

Ngāti Toa leader

Te Whatanui

?–1846

Ngāti Raukawa leader

Wakefield, Edward Jerningham

1820–1879

Adventurer, writer, politician

Williams, Henry

1792–1867

Missionary

Biographies that mention Tūroa, Te Peehi

Lampila, Jean

1808–1897

Missionary

Te Ahiko, Rāniera

?–1894

Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri and Ngāti Kahungunu historian

Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua (left), John White (centre), and Te Ua Haumēne (right), 1860s

Te Ānaua, Hōri Kīngi

?–1868

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader, assessor

Hēmi Tōpine Te Mamaku at Tāwhata in the King Country, 1885

Te Mamaku, Hēmi Tōpine

?–1887

Ngāti Hāua-te-rangi leader

Tōpia Peehi Tūroa

Tūroa, Tōpia Peehi

?–1903

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Steven Oliver. 'Tūroa, Te Peehi', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/129076/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).