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Haurongo: Cockayne, Leonard

Haurongo tūhonohono

Gibbs, Frederick Giles

1866–1953

School principal, educationalist, businessman, naturalist, community leader

Thomson, George Malcolm

1848–1933

Teacher, scientist, educationalist, politician

Wall, Arnold

1869–1966

University professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botanist, writer, radio broadcaster

Biographies that mention Cockayne, Leonard

Allan, Harry Howard Barton

1882–1957

Teacher, botanist, scientific administrator, writer

Baker, Isabel Noeline

1878–1958

Suffragist, wartime women's labour administrator, gardener, peace educator

Baughan, Blanche Edith

1870–1958

Poet, writer, penal reformer

Blackwell, Ellen Wright

1864–1952

Writer, botanist

The New Zealand Research Council, 1936

Cockayne, Alfred Hyde

1880–1966

Botanist, agricultural scientist and administrator

Elder, Norman Lascelles

1896–1974

Electrical engineer, teacher, botanist

Enys, John Davies

1837–1912

Runholder, naturalist

Gibbs, Frederick Giles

1866–1953

School principal, educationalist, businessman, naturalist, community leader

Haszard, Henry Douglas Morpeth

1862–1938

Surveyor, land commissioner

Holloway, John Ernest

1881–1945

Anglican priest, botanist, university lecturer

Holloway, John Thorpe

1914–1977

Alpine explorer, forest ecologist

Moore, Lucy Beatrice

1906–1987

Botanist, ecologist

Petrie, Donald

1846–1925

Teacher, school inspector, botanist

Poole, Alick Lindsay

1908–2008

Forester, botanist, public servant

Sanderson, Ernest Valentine

1866–1945

Businessman, conservationist

Speight, Robert

1867–1949

Geologist, university professor, museum curator

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

A. D. Thomson. 'Cockayne, Leonard', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126420/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).