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Haurongo: Sinclair, Keith

Haurongo tūhonohono

Airey, Willis Thomas Goodwin

1897–1968

University professor, historian, peace activist

Biggs, Bruce Grandison

1921–2000

Ngāti Maniapoto; ethnographer, linguist, champion of te reo Māori

Bodell, James

1831 (year uncertain)–1892

Soldier, businessman, local politician, writer

Chapman, Robert McDonald

1922–2004

Political scientist

Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

1911–2001

Journalist, poet, writer, university professor

Duggan, Maurice Noel

1922–1974

Short-story writer, copywriter, company director

Fox, William

1812 (year uncertain)–1893

Explorer, politician, premier, painter, social reformer

Friedlander, Marti

1928–2016

Photographer

Grey, George

1812–1898

Soldier, explorer, colonial governor, premier, scholar

Macdonald, George Ranald

1891–1967

Farmer, historian

Maclaurin, Richard Cockburn

1870–1920

University professor of mathematics and law, educational administrator

Muldoon, Robert David

1921–1992

Accountant, politician, prime minister

Reeves, William Pember

1857–1932

Politician, historian, poet, high commissioner, banker

Richmond, Christopher William

1821–1895

Lawyer, politician, judge

Rutherford, James

1906–1963

University professor, historian

Sewell, William Arthur

1903–1972

University professor of English

Biographies that mention Sinclair, Keith

Dallas, Ruth

1919–2008

Poet, children’s author

Joseph, Michael Kennedy

1914–1981

English lecturer, novelist, poet

Kendall, Thomas

1778 (uncertain)–1832

Missionary, orthographer, linguist

King, Michael

1945–2004

Historian, biographer, journalist, writer

Oliver, William Hosking

1925–2015

Historian, poet, editor, social commentator

Phillips, Hilda

1922–2006

Race relations campaigner and polemicist

Scott, Thomas Henry

1928–2014

Literary editor, librarian

Scott, Thomas Henry

1918–1960

Pacifist, psychology researcher and lecturer, essayist, mountaineer

Smithyman, William Kendrick

1922–1995

Poet, teacher, literary critic, university tutor

Ward, Alan Dudley

1935–2014

Historian

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Tony Ballantyne. 'Sinclair, Keith', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/231041/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).