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Haurongo: Te Matakātea, Wiremu Kīngi Moki

Haurongo tūhonohono

Chute, Trevor

1816–1886

Soldier

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

Guard, Elizabeth

1814–1870

Founding mother, hostage

Parris, Robert Reid

1816 (year uncertain)–1904

School administrator, politician, public servant, interpreter, soldier, judge

Poutama, Te Mānihera

?–1847

Ngāti Ruanui mission teacher, missionary

Richmond, James Crowe

1822–1898

Engineer, artist, politician, journalist, administrator

Rolleston, William

1831–1903

Public administrator, politician, provincial superintendent, educationalist

Group portrait of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Whātua chiefs

Te Heuheu Tūkino III, Iwikau

?–1862

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader

Te Kirikūmara, Īhāia

?–1873

Te Āti Awa leader

Te Rangitāke, Wiremu Kīngi

?–1882

Te Āti Awa leader

Te Rei Hanataua

?–1860

Ngāti Ruanui leader

Hēnare Mātene Te Whiwhi, one of the instigators of the King movement

Te Whiwhi, Hēnare Mātene

?–1881

Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Toa leader, missionary, assessor

Biographies that mention Te Matakātea, Wiremu Kīngi Moki

Manaia, Wiremu Hukunui

?–1892

Ngāti Ruanui leader

Sturm, Jacqueline Cecilia

1927–2009

Taranaki, Te Whakatōhea; short-story writer and poet

Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III

Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Erueti

?–1907

Taranaki leader, prophet

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ian Church. 'Te Matakātea, Wiremu Kīngi Moki', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128818/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).