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Haurongo: Glover, Denis James Matthews

Haurongo tūhonohono

Bethell, Mary Ursula

1874–1945

Social worker, poet

Frame, Janet Paterson

1924–2004

Schoolteacher, writer

Marsh, Edith Ngaio

1895–1982

Artist, playwright, actor, novelist, director

Mason, Ronald Allison Kells

1905–1971

Poet, tutor, labourer, journalist, editor, socialist

O'Leary, William

1865–1947

Prospector, ferryman

Sargeson, Frank

1903–1982

Short-story writer, novelist, playwright

Biographies that mention Glover, Denis James Matthews

Baxter, James Keir

1926–1972

Poet, postman, teacher, dramatist, writer, social critic

Bensemann, Leo Vernon

1912–1986

Artist, printer, typographer, publisher, editor

Brasch, Charles Orwell

1909–1973

Poet, editor, teacher, translator, lecturer

Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

1911–2001

Journalist, poet, writer, university professor

Edmond, Lauris Dorothy

1924–2000

Poet, writer

Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard

1904–1957

Insurance clerk, poet, secretary, critic, broadcaster, university lecturer, fabric printer

Heenan, Joseph William Allan

1888–1951

Law draftsman, senior public servant, administrator, writer

Canterbury Society of Arts class, about 1912

Henderson, Andrew Kennaway

1879–1960

Clerk, illustrator, cartoonist, editor, pacifist

Holmes, Cecil William

1921–1994

Film-maker, unionist, communist

Innes, Harold Hirst

1909–1985

Salesman, dairy industry negotiator and marketer, businessman, company director, local politician, philanthropist

Joseph, Michael Kennedy

1914–1981

English lecturer, novelist, poet

King, Michael

1945–2004

Historian, biographer, journalist, writer

Lilburn, Douglas Gordon

1915–2001

Composer, professor of music, philanthropist

Robert Lowry, 1933

Lowry, Robert William

1912–1963

Printer, publisher, typographer, teacher

Marris, Charles Allan

1876–1947

Journalist, editor

Mulgan, Alan Edward

1881–1962

Journalist, writer, broadcaster

Pearson, William Harrison

1922–2002

Novelist, essayist, critic, academic

Prior, Ian Ambury Miller

1923–2009

Cardiologist, epidemiologist, activist, collector, patron of the arts

Rhodes, Harold Winston

1905–1987

University professor of English, writer, editor

Scott, Walter James

1902–1985

Teacher, lecturer, educationalist, teachers’ college principal, civil libertarian

Sinclaire, Frederick

1881–1954

Unitarian minister, pacifist, social critic, university professor, essayist

Taylor, Ernest Mervyn

1906–1964

Engraver, commercial artist, publisher

Tombs, Harry Hugo

1874–1966

Printer, publisher, musician, artist, patron of the arts

Tuwhare, Hone

1922–2008

Ngāpuhi; boilermaker, poet

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Gordon Ogilvie. 'Glover, Denis James Matthews', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998, whakahou September 2014. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126857/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).