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Haurongo: Buck, Peter Henry

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James Carroll

Carroll, James

1857–1926

Ngāti Kahungunu; farm worker, interpreter, politician

Freyberg, Bernard Cyril

1889–1963

Dentist, military leader, governor general

Mackenzie, Thomas

1853–1930

Storekeeper, explorer, conservationist, politician, marketing agent, prime minister, diplomat

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

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

Smith, Stephenson Percy

1840–1922

Surveyor, public servant, ethnologist, writer

Erueti Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III

Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Erueti

?–1907

Taranaki leader, prophet

Thornton, John

1844–1913

Educationalist

Biographies that mention Buck, Peter Henry

Andersen, Johannes Carl

1873–1962

Clerk, poet, ethnologist, librarian, editor, historian

Andrew, John Chapman

1822–1907

Runholder, politician, educationalist

Māori leaders of Gisborne, photographed in the early twentieth century

Balneavis, Hēnare Te Raumoa Huatahi

1880–1940

Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Te Whakatōhea; interpreter, private secretary, public administrator

Beaglehole, Ernest

1906–1965

Psychologist, ethnologist, university professor

Best, Elsdon

1856–1931

Farm worker, soldier, sawmiller, health inspector, ethnographer, writer

Bird, William Watson

1870–1954

Headmaster, school inspector, educational administrator, Māori linguist

Brown, John Macmillan

1845–1935

University professor and administrator

Carr, Harold Herbert

1880–1973

Ngāti Kahungunu; land court judge and administrator

Condliffe, John Bell

1891–1981

Economist, university professor, economic consultant

Cooper, Whina

1895–1994

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

Harry Delamere Barter Dansey

Dansey, Harry Delamere Barter

1920–1979

Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Te Arawa; journalist, cartoonist, writer, broadcaster, local politician, race relations conciliator

Edward Pōhau Ellison

Ellison, Edward Pōhau

1884–1963

Ngāi Tahu and Te Āti Awa; rugby player, doctor, public health administrator

Fels, Willi

1858–1946

Merchant, collector, philanthropist

Firth, Cedric Harold

1908–1994

Builder, architect, writer

James Hēnare, about 1945

Hēnare, James Clendon Tau

1911–1989

Ngāpuhi leader, military leader, farmer, community leader

Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Hērangi

Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea

1883–1952

Waikato woman of mana, Kīngitanga leader

Pei Te Hurinui Jones (left), Korokī (centre), and Te Kiri Katipa

Jones, Pei Te Hurinui

1898–1976

Ngāti Maniapoto leader, interpreter, land officer, writer, translator, genealogist

Kapua, Eramiha Neke

1867 to 1875 (year uncertain)–1955

Ngāti Tarāwhai carver, tohunga, farmer

Kōhere, Hēnare Mōkena

1880–1916

Ngāti Porou; farmer, soldier

McDonald, James Ingram

1865–1935

Artist, photographer, film-maker, museum worker, film censor, promoter of Maori arts and crafts

Ānaru Iehu Ngāwaka

Ngāwaka, Ānaru Iehu

1872–1964

Te Rarawa leader, Anglican clergyman

Portrait of Ōtene Pāora, 1920s

Pāora, Ōtene

?–1930

Ngāti Whātua leader, Anglican lay reader, land negotiator

Mākereti Papakura

Papakura, Mākereti

1873–1930

Tūhourangi woman of mana, guide, ethnographer

Hōri Pukehika carving with a Māori adze, or toki, 1906

Pukehika, Hōri

?–1932

Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi leader, carver

Ramsden, George Eric Oakes

1898–1962

Journalist, writer, art critic

Relatives of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu

Reedy, Materoa

1881–1944

Ngāti Porou woman of mana

Tarakawa, Takaanui Hōhaia

1852–1919

Tapuika, Ngāti Rangiwewehi and Ngāi Te Rangi; tohunga, historian, genealogist, writer

Wiremu Te Kāhui Kararehe

Te Kāhui Kararehe, Wiremu

1846–1904

Taranaki leader, historian

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 Wake, Heremia

?–1918

Te Rarawa leader, farmer, assessor, catechist

Tūtere Wī Repa, December 1928

Wī Repa, Tūtere

1877–1945

Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou; doctor, historian, community leader

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M. P. K. Sorrenson. 'Buck, Peter Henry', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996, whakahou May 2002. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126243/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).