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Haurongo: Te Mamaku, Hēmi Tōpine

Haurongo tūhonohono

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

McLean, Donald

1820–1877

Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent

Taylor, Richard

1805–1873

Missionary, naturalist, writer

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

?–1893

Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder

Te Rangihaeata painted by Charles Heaphy

Te Rangihaeata

?–1855

Ngāti Toa leader, warrior

Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui (Major Kemp) with his wife (probably his third wife, Te Mata Kaihoe)

Te Rangihiwinui, Te Keepa

?–1898

Muaūpoko leader, military leader, assessor, land purchase officer

An 1845 pencil sketch of Te Rauparaha by Edward Abbott

Te Rauparaha

?–1849

Ngāti Toa leader

Te Peehi Tūroa

Tūroa, Te Peehi

?–1845

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader, warrior, composer of waiata

Tōpia Peehi Tūroa

Tūroa, Tōpia Peehi

?–1903

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader

Biographies that mention Te Mamaku, Hēmi Tōpine

Lampila, Jean

1808–1897

Missionary

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

Te Kere Ngātai-e-rua

?–1901

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi tohunga

Portrait of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu, by Charles Heaphy

Te Puni-kōkopu, Hōniana

?–1870

Te Āti Awa leader, government adviser

Mete Kīngi Te Rangi Paetahi, about 1869

Te Rangi Paetahi, Mete Kīngi

?–1883

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader, soldier, assessor, politician, farmer

Te Rei Hanataua

?–1860

Ngāti Ruanui leader

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Young. 'Te Mamaku, Hēmi Tōpine', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128816/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).