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Haurongo: Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

Haurongo tūhonohono

James Carroll

Carroll, James

1857–1926

Ngāti Kahungunu; farm worker, interpreter, politician

Eketone, Pēpene

1855 to 1856 (year uncertain)–1933

Ngāti Maniapoto; interpreter, native agent, assessor, politician

Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Hērangi

Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea

1883–1952

Waikato woman of mana, Kīngitanga leader

Hēnare Kaihau

Kaihau, Hēnare

1854 to 1860 (year uncertain)–1920

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

Mahuta, Tonga

1892 to 1893 (year uncertain)–1947

Ngāti Mahuta leader

Mahuta, Tūmate

1893 (year uncertain)–1938

Ngāti Mahuta; King movement leader and negotiator

Ngāpora, Tāmati

?–1885

Waikato leader, lay preacher, assessor, adviser to the Māori King

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

Rāwhiti, T. T.

1851 (year uncertain)–1927

Ngāti Hauā; King movement secretary and administrator

Seddon, Richard John

1845–1906

Politician, premier

Tawhiao, the second Maori King

Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

?–1894

Māori King, Waikato leader, prophet

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V

Te Heuheu Tūkino V, Tūreiti

1865 to 1866 (year uncertain)–1921

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, politician

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

An 1845 pencil sketch of Te Rauparaha by Edward Abbott

Te Rauparaha

?–1849

Ngāti Toa leader

Te Waharoa, Tupu Atanatiu Taingākawa

1844 to 1845 (year uncertain)–1929

Ngāti Hauā leader, kingmaker, King movement leader

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

Wahanui Huatare photographed by Alfred Henry Burton

Wahanui Huatare

?–1897

Ngāti Maniapoto leader

Ward, Joseph George

1856–1930

Merchant, politician, prime minister

Biographies that mention Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

Noda Asajiro

Noda Asajiro

1868–1942

Seaman, cashier, gum-digger, farmer

Wiremu Pere, photographed between 1884 and 1887

Pere, Wiremu

1837–1915

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

Raukawa, Te Mete

1836 to 1837 (year uncertain)–1926

Ngāti Ranginui leader, assessor, sportsman

Rangitaamo Tiahuia Takarangi, 24 July 1920

Takarangi, Rangitaamo Tiahuia

1901–1992

Ngāti Hauiti and Ngāti Hine; Māori welfare officer, community leader

Wiremu Pātara Te Tuhi

Te Tuhi, Wiremu Pātara

?–1910

Waikato leader, newspaper editor, warrior, secretary to the Maori King

Te Wherowhero, Piupiu

1886 to 1887 (year uncertain)–1937

Ngāti Mahuta woman of mana

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

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Angela Ballara. 'Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127603/related-biographies (accessed 5 June 2026).