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Haurongo: Te Rangitāke, Wiremu Kīngi

Haurongo tūhonohono

FitzRoy, Robert

1805–1865

Naval officer, hydrographer, colonial governor, meteorologist

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

Martin, William

1807 (year uncertain)–1880

Judge, writer

Māui Pōmare alongside a raupō whare at the Christchurch exhibition in 1906 or 1907

Pōmare, Māui Wiremu Piti Naera

1875 to 1876 (year uncertain)–1930

Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa; medical officer, Māori health reformer, politician

Selwyn, George Augustus

1809–1878

Missionary, bishop, metropolitan

Spain, William

1803–1876

Land claims commissioner

Portrait of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu, by Charles Heaphy

Te Puni-kōkopu, Hōniana

?–1870

Te Āti Awa leader, government adviser

Te Rangihaeata painted by Charles Heaphy

Te Rangihaeata

?–1855

Ngāti Toa leader, warrior

An 1845 pencil sketch of Te Rauparaha by Edward Abbott

Te Rauparaha

?–1849

Ngāti Toa leader

Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa

Te Waharoa, Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi

?–1866

Ngāti Hauā leader, teacher, diplomat

Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III

Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Erueti

?–1907

Taranaki leader, prophet

Williams, Henry

1792–1867

Missionary

Biographies that mention Te Rangitāke, Wiremu Kīngi

Bell, Francis Dillon

1822–1898

Public administrator, runholder, politician

Browne, Thomas Robert Gore

1807–1887

Soldier, colonial governor

Dadelszen, Edward John von

1845–1922

Public administrator, statistician

Featherston, Isaac Earl

1813–1876

Doctor, politician, provincial superintendent

Fox, William

1812 (year uncertain)–1893

Explorer, politician, premier, painter, social reformer

Gold, Charles Emilius

1809–1871

Soldier, artist

Hadfield, Octavius

1814 (year uncertain)–1904

Missionary, bishop

Rēnata Tama-ki-Hikurangi Kawepō

Kawepō, Rēnata Tama-ki-Hikurangi

?–1888

Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri and Ngāti Kahungunu leader, missionary

Rewi Manga Maniapoto photographed by Elizabeth Pulman

Maniapoto, Rewi Manga

?–1894

Ngāti Maniapoto leader, war leader

McLean, Donald

1820–1877

Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent

Wiremu Tako Ngātata, about 1870

Ngātata, Wiremu Tako

?–1887

Te Āti Awa leader, peacemaker, politician

Ōraukawa, Tāmati Hōne

Ngāti Ruanui leader

Wīremu Te Kākākura Parata Waipunaahau, 1890s

Parata, Wīremu Te Kākākura Waipunaahau

?–1906

Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa leader, farmer, politician

Parris, Robert Reid

1816 (year uncertain)–1904

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

Richmond, Christopher William

1821–1895

Lawyer, politician, judge

Later life

Te Awa-i-taia, Wiremu Nēra

?–1866

Waikato leader, missionary, assessor, mediator

Te Kirikūmara, Īhāia

?–1873

Te Āti Awa leader

Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea, 1880s

Te Matakātea, Wiremu Kīngi Moki

?–1893

Taranaki warrior, leader

Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, 1869

Te Rauparaha, Tāmihana

?–1876

Ngāti Toa leader, evangelist, writer, sheepfarmer, assessor

Te Rei Hanataua

?–1860

Ngāti Ruanui leader

Te Umuroa, Hōhepa

?–1847

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi youth, political prisoner

Thomson, Arthur Saunders

1816–1860

Military surgeon, medical scientist, writer, historian

Williams, William Leonard

1829–1916

Missionary, linguist

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ann Parsonson. 'Te Rangitāke, Wiremu Kīngi', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128870/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).