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Haurongo: Mackay, Jessie

Haurongo tūhonohono

Baughan, Blanche Edith

1870–1958

Poet, writer, penal reformer

Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

1911–2001

Journalist, poet, writer, university professor

Duggan, Eileen May

1894–1972

Poet, writer

Grossmann, Edith Searle

1863–1931

Teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist

Hyde, Robin

1906–1939

Poet, novelist, journalist

Lyttleton, Edith Joan

1873–1945

Novelist, short story writer

Mander, Mary Jane

1877–1949

Teacher, journalist, novelist

McCormick, Eric Hall

1906–1995

Teacher, critic, historian, university lecturer, biographer

McKenzie, John

1839–1901

Farmer, politician, political reformer

Mulgan, Alan Edward

1881–1962

Journalist, writer, broadcaster

Nash, Walter

1882–1968

Clerk, commercial traveller, shopkeeper, politician, prime minister

Tregear, Edward Robert

1846–1931

Soldier, surveyor, linguist, Polynesian scholar, writer, public servant, political reformer

Biographies that mention Mackay, Jessie

Andersen, Catherine Ann

1870–1957

Teacher, community leader, writer

Church, Hubert Newman Wigmore

1857–1932

Clerk, poet, novelist

Cowan, James

1870–1943

Journalist, historian

Garmson, Aileen Anna Maria

1861 to 1863 (year uncertain)–1951

Trade unionist, political activist

Glen, Alice Esther

1881–1940

Novelist, journalist, community worker

Mackay, Elizabeth

1842 to 1847 (year uncertain)–1897

Homemaker

Sheppard, Katherine Wilson

1847–1934

Suffragist, social reformer, writer

Hōri Kerei Taiaroa, member of the House of Representatives for Southern Māori from 1871

Taiaroa, Hōri Kerei

?–1905

Ngāi Tahu leader, politician, assessor

Weeks, John

1886–1965

Artist, art teacher

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Heather Roberts. 'Mackay, Jessie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127534/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).