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Haurongo: Te Tuhi, Wiremu Pātara

Haurongo tūhonohono

Cameron, Duncan Alexander

1808–1888

Soldier, military leader

Gorst, John Eldon

1835–1916

Lawyer, teacher, magistrate, civil commissioner, politician, writer

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

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

Tawhiao, the second Maori King

Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

?–1894

Māori King, Waikato leader, prophet

Group portrait of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Whātua chiefs

Te Heuheu Tūkino III, Iwikau

?–1862

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader

Wiremu Te Wheoro

Te Wheoro, Wiremu Te Mōrehu Maipapa

?–1895

Waikato leader, assessor, soldier, native commissioner, mediator, politician, 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 Te Tuhi, Wiremu Pātara

Alfred Grace

Grace, Alfred Augustus

1867–1942

Teacher, journalist, writer

Te Paea Tīaho

?–1875

Waikato woman of mana

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Steven Oliver. 'Te Tuhi, Wiremu Pātara', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/128908/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).