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Haurongo: Carroll, James

Haurongo tūhonohono

Atkinson, Harry Albert

1831–1892

Farmer, soldier, politician, social reformer, premier

Ballance, John

1839–1893

Newspaper proprietor and editor, politician, premier

Hēni Materoa Carroll, 1909

Carroll, Hēni Materoa

1852 to 1856 (year uncertain)–1930

Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader

Herries, William Herbert

1859–1923

Farmer, horse breeder, politician

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader Riperata Kahutia, who fought to protect and consolidate the lands of her people

Kahutia, Riperata

1838 to 1839 (year uncertain)–1887

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki woman of mana

Lysnar, William Douglas

1867–1942

Lawyer, landowner, politician

Massey, William Ferguson

1856–1925

Farmer, politician, prime minister

McLean, Donald

1820–1877

Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent

Hōne Heke Ngāpua

Ngāpua, Hōne Heke

1869–1909

Ngāpuhi leader, politician

Apirana Turupa Ngata, about 1905

Ngata, Apirana Turupa

1874–1950

Ngāti Porou leader, land reformer, politician, scholar

Paratene Ngata (right), Elsdon Best (centre) and John Nukunuku (left)

Ngata, Paratene

1849 (year uncertain)–1924

Ngāti Porou leader, storekeeper, soldier, farmer, assessor

Wiremu Pere, photographed between 1884 and 1887

Pere, Wiremu

1837–1915

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Rongowhakaata; politician, runholder

Rees, William Lee

1836–1912

Lawyer, politician

Rua Kēnana Hepetipa, 1908

Rua Kēnana Hepetipa

1868 to 1869 (year uncertain)–1937

Tūhoe prophet

Seddon, Richard John

1845–1906

Politician, premier

Stout, Robert

1844–1930

Lawyer, politician, premier, chief justice, university chancellor

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

?–1893

Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder

Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (seated, right) and others

Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1877 to 1880 (year uncertain)–1933

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King

Rāpata Wahawaha

Wahawaha, Rāpata

?–1897

Ngāti Porou leader, soldier, farmer, politician, assessor

Ward, Joseph George

1856–1930

Merchant, politician, prime minister

Biographies that mention Carroll, James

Frederick Augustus Bennett, 1928

Bennett, Frederick Augustus

1871–1950

Ngāti Whakaue; Anglican clergyman and bishop

Peter Henry Buck

Buck, Peter Henry

1877 (year uncertain)–1951

Ngāti Mutunga; doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist, museum director

Cadman, Alfred Jerome

1847–1905

Sawmiller, politician

Carr, Harold Herbert

1880–1973

Ngāti Kahungunu; land court judge and administrator

Turi Carroll at the Māori Women's Welfare League conference, Wellington, 1953

Carroll, Turi

1890–1975

Ngāti Kahungunu leader, farmer, local politician

Cooper, Whina

1895–1994

Te Rarawa woman of mana, teacher, storekeeper, community leader

Piipi Raumati Cummins at Wekaweka, Northland, on Christmas Day, 1947

Cummins, Piipi Raumati

1857 to 1862 (year uncertain)–1952

Te Roroa leader, kauri-gum dealer, storekeeper, land rights activist

Davy, Albert Ernest

1886–1959

Hairdresser, businessman, political organiser

Eketone, Pēpene

1855 to 1856 (year uncertain)–1933

Ngāti Maniapoto; interpreter, native agent, assessor, politician

Hall-Jones, William

1851–1936

Builder, prime minister, diplomat

Edward Francis Harris, whose lifelong search for identity finally secured him a place in both Māori and Pākehā society

Harris, Edward Francis

1834–1898

Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and Rongowhakaata; public servant, interpreter, landowner, genealogist

James Hēnare, about 1945

Hēnare, James Clendon Tau

1911–1989

Ngāpuhi leader, military leader, farmer, community leader

Hikapuhi

1860 to 1871 (year uncertain)–1934

Ngāti Pikiao tohunga

Horomona, Maata

1893–1939

Ngāti Whakaue; actress

Īhāia Hūtana, editor of the Māori newspaper Huia Tangata Kotahi

Hūtana, Īhāia

1843 to 1844 (year uncertain)–1938

Ngāti Kahungunu leader, newspaper editor, assessor

Hēnare Kaihau

Kaihau, Hēnare

1854 to 1860 (year uncertain)–1920

Ngāti Te Ata leader, politician, adviser to the Māori King

Kīngi Āreta Keiha at Maadi, Egypt, in August 1943

Keiha, Kīngi Āreta

1900–1961

Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti; law clerk, interpreter, soldier, Maori welfare officer, farmer

Hāmuera Tamahau Mahupuku and his wife, Āreta

Mahupuku, Hāmuera Tamahau

1837 to 1842 (year uncertain)–1904

Ngati Kahungunu leader, runholder, assessor, newspaper proprietor

A political meeting at Huntly, 1898

Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

1854 to 1855 (year uncertain)–1912

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King, politician

Maika, Pūrākau

Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne; newspaper editor and publisher

McKenzie, John

1839–1901

Farmer, politician, political reformer

Portrait of Ōtene Pāora, 1920s

Pāora, Ōtene

?–1930

Ngāti Whātua leader, Anglican lay reader, land negotiator

Haimona Pātete, about 1900

Pātete, Haimona

1863 to 1864 (year uncertain)–1921

Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kuia leader, religious founder

Ōtene Pītau (seated, right) at the first meeting of the Tākitimu Māori Council, 10 June 1902

Pītau, Ōtene

1834 to 1835 (year uncertain)–1921

Rongowhakaata leader

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

Hoani Taipua Te Puna-i-rangiriri, member of the House of Representatives for Western Māori from 1886 to 1893

Taipua Te Puna-i-rangiriri, Hoani

1839 to 1840 (year uncertain)–1896

Ngāti Raukawa leader, politician, horse-racing steward, farmer

Te Mātorohanga, Moihi

Ngāti Kahungunu tohunga, historian

Te Rangimārie, Puna Hīmene

Healer, nurse, spiritual leader

Te Waharoa, Tupu Atanatiu Taingākawa

1844 to 1845 (year uncertain)–1929

Ngāti Hauā leader, kingmaker, King movement leader

Hēnare Wēpiha Te Wainohu, photographed in army chaplain's uniform during the First World War

Te Wainohu, Hēnare Wēpiha

1882–1920

Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Pāhauwera leader, Anglican clergyman, army chaplain

Te Whenuanui

?–1907

Tūhoe chief, builder and carver

Hēnare Tomoana, photographed on 29 April 1873

Tomoana, Hēnare

?–1904

Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Te Whatu-i-āpiti leader, military leader, newspaper publisher, politician

Hoani Paraone Tunuiarangi with his daughter

Tūnuiārangi, Hoani Parāone

1843 to 1844 (year uncertain)–1933

Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne leader, guide, interpreter, assessor, politician, writer

Tōpia Peehi Tūroa

Tūroa, Tōpia Peehi

?–1903

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Alan Ward. 'Carroll, James', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126339/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).