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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

Index Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (DNZB) is an encyclopedia or biographical dictionary containing biographies of over 3,000 deceased New Zealanders. [1]

216 relations: Akuaku, Alan MacDiarmid, Albert Davy, Alexander Godley, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Alfred Cadman, Alfred Charles Hanlon, Alfred William Robin, Alice Woodhouse, Allen Curnow, An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, Andrew Hamilton Russell, Arthur Dudley Dobson, Arthur Lydiard, Aunt Daisy, Avon by-election, 1947, Āpirana Ngata, Barry Crump, Benjamin Farjeon, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Beryl Te Wiata, Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies, Bibliography of New Zealand history, Bill Anderton, Bob Deans, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bodbrane, Bridget Williams, C. F. Goldie, Cabinet of New Zealand, Cathcart Wason, Cecil Holmes (director), Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, Charles Fleming (ornithologist), Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, Charles Wilson (librarian), Charleston, New Zealand, Christian socialism, Clarence Weber, Claudia Orange, Colin Falkland Gray, Colin McCahon, Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, Coutts Crawford, David Lange, Devonport, New Zealand, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1940), Dominion Wrestling Union, Douglas Lilburn, Dunedin, ..., Eben Ernest Hayes, Edmund Hillary, Edward Dobson, Edward Musgrave Blaiklock, Egmont (New Zealand electorate), Eparaima Te Mutu Kapa, Eruera Tirikatene, Esther James, Ettie Rout, Eugene O'Conor, Francis Eastwood Campbell, Frank Worsley, Frederick Moss, George Forbes (New Zealand politician), George Friend (parliamentary official), George Griffiths (historian), George Spafford Richardson, Gilbert Mair (trader), Godley Statue, Gordon Ogilvie, Government of New Zealand, Governor-General of New Zealand, Grey by-election, 1917, Gummer and Ford, Haane Manahi, Harold Barrowclough, Harold Gillies, Harold John Finlay, Harold Rushworth, Harry Cave, Henare Kaihau, Henry Ely Shacklock, Henry Williams (missionary), Herbert Ernest Hart, Himalayan Trust, Hone Tuwhare, Hongi Hika, Ike Robin, Iriaka Matiu Ratana, James Coates (parliamentary official), James K. Baxter, James Mackintosh (politician), James William Brodie, Jane Williams (missionary), Janet Frame, John Perry Robinson, Jonathan Hunt (New Zealand politician), Joseph Dargaville, Julius von Haast, July 1963, Kaiwaka, Kate Sheppard, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Todd, Len Lye, Lionel Terry, List of biographical dictionaries, List of carcinologists, List of faculty and alumni of the Académie Julian, List of New Zealand Catholics, List of Old Dunelmians, List of online encyclopedias, List of physically disabled politicians, List of snooker player nicknames, Lofty Blomfield, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Margaret Alington, Marianne Williams, Mary Ann Müller, Maud Pember Reeves, Maurice Duggan, Mayor of Invercargill, Mayor of Napier, New Zealand, Michael Bassett, Michael King, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Mission Bay, New Zealand, Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, Moodabe family, Moturau Moana, Mount Crawford (South Australia), Napier mayoral election, 1917, Navy Cross, Neue Deutsche Biographie, New Zealand, New Zealand Legion, New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Nga Manu Korero, Ngāpuhi, Nicholas Chevalier, NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship, Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War, Oscar Natzka, Otago University Debating Society, Pakaraka, Paparoa, Pat Hanna, Pōmare I, Pepene Eketone, Peria, Northland, Peter Blake (sailor), Peter Entwisle, Peterborough, Philip Robertson (chemist), Philippa Mein Smith, Pink and White Terraces, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rawene, Rewi Maniapoto, Robert Muldoon, Ropata Wahawaha, Rose Historic Chapel, Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Rumatiki Ruth Wright, Runanga, New Zealand, Sewell Ministry, 1856, Stephen Jelicich, Sunnyside Hospital, Suzanne Aubert, Sydney Lough Thompson, T. W. Ratana, Tamaki Drive, Tāmati Wāka Nene, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Te Puea Herangi, Te Rangi Hīroa, Te Whiti o Rongomai, Ted Morgan (boxer), Tepid Baths, The Maori Merchant of Venice, Thomas Brunner, Thomas Forsaith, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Thomas Kendall, Thomas Kynnersley, Thomas William Hislop, Toko Ratana, Tom Lowry, Tom Macdonald (politician), Town of Christchurch by-election, 1860, Truby King, Tuamarina, Vernon Cracknell, Vigor Brown, W. H. Oliver, Waituhi, Walter Oliver, Whatuwhiwhi, Whina Cooper, Whitcoulls, Who's Who in New Zealand, Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington, William Colenso, William Edward Sanders, William Garnett Braithwaite, William George Malone, William Mein Smith, William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, William Sinclair-Burgess, William Wakefield, William Williams (bishop), Wiremu Parata, Women's suffrage in New Zealand, 2nd New Zealand Division, 6th Infantry Brigade (New Zealand). Expand index (166 more) »

Akuaku

Akuaku, also known as Aku Aku, was a settlement approximately halfway between Waipiro Bay and Whareponga in the East Coast region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Alan MacDiarmid

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

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Albert Davy

Albert Ernest Davy (17 August 1886 – 13 June 1959) was a New Zealand political organiser and campaign manager; and at the height of his career, was regarded as one of the best in the country.

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Alexander Godley

General Sir Alexander John Godley, (4 February 1867 – 6 March 1957) was a senior British Army officer.

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Alexander Wyclif Reed

Alexander Wyclif Reed, also known as Clif Reed and A. W. Reed, (7 March 1908 – 19 October 1979) was a prolific New Zealand publisher and author.

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Alfred Cadman

Sir Alfred Jerome Cadman (17 June 1847 – 23 March 1905) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.

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Alfred Charles Hanlon

Alfred Charles "Alf" Hanlon (1 August 1866 – 6 February 1944) was a New Zealand lawyer, who, according to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, "was one of the most outstanding criminal advocates in New Zealand's history".

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Alfred William Robin

Major General Sir Alfred William Robin, (12 August 1860 – 2 June 1935) was a New Zealand military leader.

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Alice Woodhouse

Alice Woodhouse (14 December 1883 – 7 October 1977) was a New Zealand librarian, journalist and broadcaster.

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Allen Curnow

Thomas Allen Munro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist.

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An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was an official encyclopedia about New Zealand, published by the Government of New Zealand in 1966.

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Andrew Hamilton Russell

Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell (23 February 1868 – 29 November 1960) was a New Zealand General during the First World War.

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Arthur Dudley Dobson

Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson (9 September 1841 – 5 March 1934) was a pioneer surveyor, engineer and explorer.

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Arthur Lydiard

Arthur Leslie Lydiard (6 July 1917 – 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach.

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Aunt Daisy

Maud Ruby Basham (née Taylor; 30 August 1879 – 14 July 1963), usually known as Daisy Basham or professionally as Aunt Daisy, was a New Zealand radio broadcaster from 1930 to 1963.

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Avon by-election, 1947

The 1947 Avon by-election was a by-election held during the 28th New Zealand Parliament in the Christchurch electorate of Avon.

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Āpirana Ngata

Sir Āpirana Turupa Ngata (3 July 1874 – 14 July 1950) was a prominent New Zealand politician and lawyer.

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Barry Crump

Barry Crump, (15 May 1935 – 3 July 1996), was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man.

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Benjamin Farjeon

Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (12 May 1838 – 23 July 1903) was an English novelist, playwright, printer and journalist.

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Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg

Lieutenant General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, (21 March 1889 – 4 July 1963) was a British-born soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, who served as the 7th Governor-General of New Zealand from 1946 to 1952.

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Beryl Te Wiata

Beryl Margaret Te Wiata (née McMillan, 15 April 1925 – 4 May 2017) was a New Zealand actor, author, and scriptwriter.

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Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies

This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries on general biographies in any language.

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Bibliography of New Zealand history

This is a bibliography of New Zealand history.

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Bill Anderton

William Theophilus Anderton (16 March 1891 – 20 January 1966) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

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Bob Deans

Robert George Deans (19 February 1884, Christchurch, New Zealand – 30 September 1908) was a former New Zealand and Canterbury rugby union footballer.

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Bob Fitzsimmons

Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) was a British professional boxer who made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion.

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Bodbrane

Bodbrane is an ancient farmstead hamlet in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Bridget Williams

Bridget Rosamund Williams (born 1948) is a New Zealand publisher and founder of two independent publishing companies: Port Nicholson Press and Bridget Williams Books.

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C. F. Goldie

Charles Frederick Goldie (20 October 187011 July 1947) was a New Zealand artist, best known for his portrayal of Māori dignitaries.

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Cabinet of New Zealand

The Cabinet of New Zealand (Te Rūnanga o te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa) is the New Zealand Government's body of senior ministers, responsible to the New Zealand Parliament.

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Cathcart Wason

(John) Cathcart Wason (17 November 1848 – 19 April 1921), generally known as Cathcart Wason, was a Scottish farmer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in two countries: first in New Zealand and then in Scotland.

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Cecil Holmes (director)

Cecil William Holmes (23 June 1921 – 24 August 1994) was a New Zealand-born film director and writer.

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Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe

Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, (21 September 1867 – 3 July 1958) was a British Conservative politician and colonial governor.

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Charles Fleming (ornithologist)

Sir Charles Alexander Fleming, KBE, FRS, FRSNZ, FRAOU (9 September 1916 – 11 September 1987) was a New Zealand geologist, ornithologist, avian palaeontologist and environmentalist.

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Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham

Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, (8 August 1909 – 20 March 1977) was the ninth Governor-General of New Zealand and an English cricketer from the Lyttelton family.

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Charles Wilson (librarian)

Charles Wilson (1 January 1857 – 9 February 1932) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.

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Charleston, New Zealand

Charleston is a village in the South Island of New Zealand located 30 km south of Westport.

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Christian socialism

Christian socialism is a form of religious socialism based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Clarence Weber

Clarence Alfred Weber (1882–1930) was a wrestler in the 1880s.

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Claudia Orange

Dame Claudia Josepha Orange (née Bell, born 17 April 1938) is a New Zealand historian best known for her 1987 book The Treaty of Waitangi, which won 'Book of the Year' at the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1988.

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Colin Falkland Gray

Group Captain Colin Falkland Gray, (9 November 1914 – 1 August 1995) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and the top New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War.

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Colin McCahon

Colin John McCahon (1August 191927May 1987) was a prominent New Zealand artist whose work over forty-five years consisted of various styles including landscape, figuration, abstraction and the overlay of painted text.

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Colonial Secretary of New Zealand

The Colonial Secretary of New Zealand was an office established in 1840 and abolished in 1907.

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Coutts Crawford

James Coutts Crawford (19 January 1817 – 8 April 1889), known as Coutts Crawford, was a Naval officer, farmer, scientist, explorer and public servant in New Zealand.

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David Lange

David Russell Lange (4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989.

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Devonport, New Zealand

Devonport is a harbourside suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1940)

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography was published in two volumes in 1940 by Guy Scholefield.

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Dominion Wrestling Union

The Dominion Wrestling Union (DWU) was the first professional wrestling promotion in New Zealand.

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Douglas Lilburn

Douglas Gordon Lilburn (2 November 19156 June 2001) was a New Zealand composer.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Eben Ernest Hayes

Eben Ernest Hayes (Ernest Hayes) (1851–1933) was a New Zealand engineer and inventor who founded the Hayes Engineering works in Oturehua, Central Otago.

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary OSN (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.

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Edward Dobson

Edward Dobson (1816/17? – 19 September 1908) was Provincial Engineer for Canterbury Province, New Zealand from 1854 to 1868.

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Edward Musgrave Blaiklock

Edward Musgrave Blaiklock (6 July 1903 – 26 October 1983) was chair of classics at the University of Auckland from 1947 to 1968, and champion of Christian apologetic literature in New Zealand from the 1950s until his death in 1983.

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Egmont (New Zealand electorate)

Egmont is a former New Zealand electorate, in south Taranaki.

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Eparaima Te Mutu Kapa

Eparaima Te Mutu Kapa (1842 – 23 October 1924) was a 19th-century Māori member of the New Zealand parliament.

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Eruera Tirikatene

Sir Eruera Tihema Te Aika Tirikatene (5 January 1895 – 11 January 1967) was a New Zealand Māori politician of the Ngai Tahu tribe.

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Esther James

Esther Marion Pretoria James (5 November 1900 – 7 January 1990) was one of New Zealand's first professional fashion models and a keen supporter of "buy nz made." James walked the length of New Zealand in 1931-2 to raise awareness of New Zealand-made goods and improve trade during the depression.

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Ettie Rout

Ettie Annie Rout (24 February 1877 – 17 September 1936) was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events she became persona non grata in New Zealand.

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Eugene O'Conor

Eugene Joseph O'Conor (23 February 1835 – 5 July 1912) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Buller electorate, in the South Island.

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Francis Eastwood Campbell

Major Francis Eastwood Campbell (1823 – 27 September 1911) was the second Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives ("Clerk of the House"), serving for 35 years from 1854.

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Frank Worsley

Frank Arthur Worsley (22 February 1872 – 1 February 1943) was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, as captain of the Endurance.

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Frederick Moss

Frederick Joseph Moss (1827/1828 – 8 July 1904) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Auckland, New Zealand.

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George Forbes (New Zealand politician)

George William Forbes (12 March 1869 – 17 May 1947) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 28 May 1930 to 6 December 1935.

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George Friend (parliamentary official)

George Friend (1835 – 19 July 1898) was the third Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives ("Clerk of the House"), serving in this office for 9 years from 1889.

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George Griffiths (historian)

George John Griffiths QSO (1933–29 January 2014) was a New Zealand historian, writer, and journalist.

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George Spafford Richardson

Major-General Sir George Spafford Richardson, (14 November 1868 – 11 June 1938) was a senior officer in the New Zealand Military Forces.

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Gilbert Mair (trader)

Gilbert Mair (Peterhead, Scotland, 23 May 1799 – Whangarei, 16 July 1857) was a sailor and a merchant trader who visited New Zealand for the first time when he was twenty, and lived there from 1824 till his death.

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Godley Statue

The Godley Statue is a bronze statue situated in Cathedral Square in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Gordon Ogilvie

Gordon Bryant Ogilvie (8 May 1934 – 23 October 2017) was a New Zealand historian and biographer who wrote over 20 books, mainly about the people, places and institutions of the Canterbury region.

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Government of New Zealand

The Government of New Zealand (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa), or New Zealand Government (ceremonially referred to as Her Majesty's Government in New Zealand on the Seal of New Zealand), is the administrative complex through which authority is exercised in New Zealand.

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Governor-General of New Zealand

The Governor-General of New Zealand (Te Kāwana Tianara o Aotearoa) is the viceregal representative of the monarch of New Zealand, currently Queen Elizabeth II.

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Grey by-election, 1917

The Grey by-election of 1917 was a by-election held during the 18th New Zealand Parliament.

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Gummer and Ford

Gummer and Ford was an architectural firm founded in 1923 in Auckland, New Zealand by William Henry Gummer and Charles Reginald Ford.

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Haane Manahi

Haane Te Rauawa Manahi DCM (28 September 191329 March 1986) was a New Zealand soldier of Te Arawa and Ngāti Raukawa descent who served in the Second World War as a member of the Māori Battalion.

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Harold Barrowclough

Major General Sir Harold Eric Barrowclough & Bar, (23 June 1894 – 4 March 1972) was a New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice from 1953 to 1966.

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Harold Gillies

Sir Harold Delf Gillies (17 June 1882 – 10 September 1960) was a New Zealand-born, and later London-based, otolaryngologist who is widely considered the father of modern plastic surgery.

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Harold John Finlay

Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist.

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Harold Rushworth

Harold Montague Rushworth (18 August 1880 – 25 April 1950) was a New Zealand politician of the Country Party.

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Harry Cave

Henry Butler "Harry" Cave (10 October 1922 – 15 September 1989) was a New Zealand cricketer who captained New Zealand in nine of his 19 Tests.

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Henare Kaihau

Henare Kaihau (1854/1860? – 20 May 1920) was a New Zealand Māori politician, serving as Member of the House of Representatives for the Western Maori electorate.

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Henry Ely Shacklock

Henry Ely Shacklock (21 June 1839 – 17 December 1902) was an iron moulder and manufacturer in colonial New Zealand.

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Henry Williams (missionary)

Henry Williams (11 February 1792 – 16 July 1867) was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century.

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Herbert Ernest Hart

Brigadier General Sir Herbert Ernest Hart, (13 October 1882 – 5 March 1968) was an officer in the New Zealand Military Forces who served during the Second Boer War and the First World War.

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Himalayan Trust

The Himalayan Trust is an international non-profit humanitarian organisation first established in the 1960s by Sir Edmund Hillary, who led the trust until his death in 2008.

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Hone Tuwhare

Hone Tuwhare (21 October 1922 – 16 January 2008) was a noted New Zealand poet of Māori ancestry.

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Hongi Hika

Hongi Hika (c. 1772 – 6 March 1828) was a New Zealand Māori rangatira (chief) and war leader of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe).

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Ike Robin

Ihakara Te Tuku Rapana (8 November 1886 – 21 June 1968) was a New Zealand sportsman, businessman, orator and member for the Māori Anglican Church.

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Iriaka Matiu Ratana

Iriaka Matiu Rātana (25 February 1905 – 21 December 1981) was a New Zealand politician and Rātana morehu who won the Western Maori electorate for Labour in 1949.

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James Coates (parliamentary official)

James Coates (1815 – 1 July 1854) was a prominent pioneer settler of Auckland New Zealand.

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James K. Baxter

James Keir Baxter (29 June 1926 – 22 October 1972) was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.

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James Mackintosh (politician)

James Mackintosh (18 October 1827 – 9 May 1897) was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Southland, New Zealand.

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James William Brodie

James William Brodie, (7 October 1920 – 11 April 2009), was a New Zealand geologist, oceanographer and amateur historian and philatelist.

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Jane Williams (missionary)

Jane Williams, born Jane Nelson (born: 1801?, Nottingham - died: 6 October 1896, Napier), was a pioneering educator in New Zealand.

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Janet Frame

Nene Janet Paterson Clutha (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author who published under the name Janet Frame.

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John Perry Robinson

John Perry Robinson (1810/11? – 28 January 1865) was the second Superintendent of the Nelson Province in New Zealand.

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Jonathan Hunt (New Zealand politician)

Jonathan Lucas Hunt (born 2 December 1938) is a New Zealand politician, and was New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2005 to March 2008.

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Joseph Dargaville

Joseph McMullen Dargaville (1837 – 27 October 1896) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Auckland, New Zealand.

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Julius von Haast

Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast (born Johann Franz Julius Haast, 1 May 1822 – 16 August 1887), known as Julius Haast and later as Julius von Haast, was a German geologist.

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July 1963

The following events occurred in July 1963.

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Kaiwaka

Kaiwaka "the little town of lights" or "food canoe" is a settlement in Northland, New Zealand.

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Kate Sheppard

Katherine Wilson Sheppard (Malcolm; 10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragette.

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Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

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Kathleen Todd

Kathleen Mary Gertrude Todd (19 November 1898 – 21 March 1968) was a pioneering New Zealand child psychiatrist.

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Len Lye

Leonard Charles Huia Lye (5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980), was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture.

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Lionel Terry

Edward Lionel Terry (1873 – 20 August 1952) was a New Zealand white supremacist and murderer, incarcerated in psychiatric institutions after murdering a Chinese immigrant, Mr.

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List of biographical dictionaries

This is an incomplete list of biographical dictionaries.

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List of carcinologists

A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology (the science of crustaceans).

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List of faculty and alumni of the Académie Julian

This list includes notable professors and students of the Académie Julian, a private art school in Paris founded by Rodolphe Julian that was active from 1867 to 1968.

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List of New Zealand Catholics

This is a list of notable New Zealand Catholics.

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List of Old Dunelmians

This is a list of notable Old Dunelmians, former students of Durham School at Durham, England.

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List of online encyclopedias

This is a list of encyclopedias accessible on the Internet.

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List of physically disabled politicians

The following is a list of politicians who hold or held office while having a significant physical disability.

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List of snooker player nicknames

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Lofty Blomfield

Meynell Strathmore Blomfield (18 July 1908 – 29 June 1971) was a New Zealand professional wrestler, known by his ringname Lofty Blomfield, who was arguably the country's most popular wrestler during the 1930s and 40s.

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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne

Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 – 12 June 1772), with the surname sometimes spelt Dufresne, was a Breton-born French explorer who made important discoveries in the south Indian Ocean, in Tasmania and in New Zealand.

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Margaret Alington

Margaret Hilda Alington (née Broadhead, 30 September 1920 – 15 October 2012) was a New Zealand librarian, historian and author.

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Marianne Williams

Marianne Williams, together with her sister-in-law Jane Williams, was a pioneering educator in New Zealand.

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Mary Ann Müller

Mary Ann Müller (born Mary Ann Wilson in 1819 or 1820 in London, died 18 July 1901 in Blenheim) was a New Zealand campaigner for women's suffrage and, more generally, women's rights.

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Maud Pember Reeves

Maud Pember Reeves (24 December 1865 – 13 September 1953) (born Magdalene Stuart Robison) was a suffragist, socialist, feminist, writer and member of the Fabian Society.

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Maurice Duggan

Maurice Noel Duggan (25 November 1922 - 11 December 1974) was a New Zealand writer of short fiction.

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Mayor of Invercargill

The Mayor of Invercargill is the head of the municipal government of Invercargill, New Zealand, and presides over the Invercargill City Council.

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Mayor of Napier, New Zealand

The Mayor of Napier is the head of the municipal government of Napier City, New Zealand, and presides over the Napier City Council.

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Michael Bassett

Michael Edward Rainton Bassett (born 28 August 1938) is a former Labour Party member of the New Zealand House of Representatives and cabinet minister in the reformist fourth Labour government.

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Michael King

Michael King, OBE (15 December 1945 – 30 March 2004) was a New Zealand popular historian, author, and biographer.

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Ministry for Culture and Heritage

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) (Māori: Manatū Taonga) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on policies and issues involving the arts, culture, heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors, and participating in functions that advance or promote those sectors.

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Mission Bay, New Zealand

Mission Bay is a seaside suburb of Auckland city, on the North Island of New Zealand, with a population of 5469.

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Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

The Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry is one category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards, given out annually.

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Moodabe family

The Moodabe family is a long established Auckland family which has been associated with the development and operation of cinema in New Zealand since the 1920s.

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Moturau Moana

Moturau Moana on Stewart Island is New Zealand's southernmost public garden.

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Mount Crawford (South Australia)

Mount Crawford is a hill in the locality also named Mount Crawford in South Australia approximately north of Birdwood in the Mount Lofty Ranges.

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Napier mayoral election, 1917

The Napier mayoral election, 1917 was held to determine the next Mayor of Napier.

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Navy Cross

The Navy Cross is the United States military's second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat.

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Neue Deutsche Biographie

Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB; literally New German Biography) is a biographical reference work.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand Legion

The New Zealand Legion was a political organisation founded in New Zealand during the Great Depression.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.

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New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force was the female auxiliary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War.

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Nga Manu Korero

Ngā Manu Kōrero ("The Orators") is a Māori speech competition for secondary students.

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Ngāpuhi

Ngāpuhi (or Ngā Puhi) is a Māori iwi located in the Northland region of New Zealand, and centred in the Hokianga, the Bay of Islands, and Whangārei.

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Nicholas Chevalier

Nicholas Chevalier (9 May 1828 – 15 March 1902) was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand.

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NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship

The NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship is the primary singles title in the NWA-affiliated wrestling promotion NWA New Zealand.

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Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War

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Oscar Natzka

Oscar Natzka (15 June 19124 November 1951) was a New Zealand operatic singer.

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Otago University Debating Society

The Otago University Debating Society (OUDS) was established in June 1878 and is the oldest society of the University of Otago,Elworthy, Sam.

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Pakaraka

Pakaraka is a settlement in Northland, New Zealand, at the junction of State Highway 1 and 10, in the district the Ngāpuhi tribe called Tai-a-mai.

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Paparoa

Paparoa is a settlement in Northland, New Zealand.

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Pat Hanna

Pat Hanna (born George Patrick Hanna; 18 March 1888 in Whitianga, New Zealand – 24 October 1973 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England) was a New Zealand soldier of the First World War who entertained postwar audiences with Digger travelling stage shows and films.

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Pōmare I

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Pepene Eketone

Pepene Eketone (ca. 1856 – 9 November 1933) was a New Zealand interpreter, native agent, assessor and politician.

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Peria, Northland

There is also in Waikato, near Matamata, scene of a Kīngitanga meeting in 1863. Peria is a locality in Northland, New Zealand.

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Peter Blake (sailor)

Sir Peter James Blake, KBE (1 October 1948 – 5 December 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, held the Jules Verne Trophy from 1994 to 1997 by setting the fastest time around the world as co-skipper of ENZA New Zealand, and led his country to successive victories in the ''America'''s Cup.

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Peter Entwisle

Peter Malcolm William Entwisle (20 September 1948 – 14 March 2018) was a New Zealand art historian and writer, notably on the history of Dunedin and of New Zealand art.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.

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Philip Robertson (chemist)

Philip Wilfred Robertson was a New Zealand chemist, university professor, and writer.

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Philippa Mein Smith

Philippa Mein Smith is a New Zealand-Australian academic and historian who specialises in Australian history, New Zealand history, the history of Australia-New Zealand relations and health history.

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Pink and White Terraces

The Pink Terrace, or Te Otukapuarangi ("The fountain of the clouded sky") in Māori, and the White Terrace, also known as Te Tarata ("the tattooed rock"), were natural wonders of New Zealand.

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Prime Minister of New Zealand

The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Te Pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.

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Rawene

Rawene is a town on the south side of the Hokianga harbour, in Northland, New Zealand.

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Rewi Maniapoto

Rewi Manga Maniapoto (1807–1894) was a Ngāti Maniapoto chief who led rebel Kīngitanga forces during the New Zealand government Invasion of Waikato during the New Zealand Wars.

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Robert Muldoon

Sir Robert David Muldoon (25 September 19215 August 1992), also known as Rob Muldoon, was a New Zealand politician who served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as Leader of the National Party.

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Ropata Wahawaha

Ropata Wahawaha (– 1 July 1897) was a Ngāti Porou war chief who rose to prominence during New Zealand's East Cape War and to senior command during Te Kooti's War.

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Rose Historic Chapel

The Rose Historic Chapel, formerly known as the St Mary's Convent Chapel, is a heritage-listed stone church building located in Colombo Street in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Rua Kenana Hepetipa

Rua Tapunui Kenana (1869–1937) was a Māori prophet, faith healer and land rights activist.

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Rumatiki Ruth Wright

Rumatiki Ruth Wright (née Gray, 27 April 1908 – 15 December 1982) was a notable New Zealand community leader and Māori welfare officer.

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Runanga, New Zealand

Runanga is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Sewell Ministry, 1856

The Sewell Ministry was the first responsible government in New Zealand.

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Stephen Jelicich

Stephen Albert Jelicich (1 March 1923 – 19 December 2015) was a New Zealand architect and historian.

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Sunnyside Hospital

Sunnyside Hospital (1863–1999) was the first mental asylum to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Suzanne Aubert

Suzanne Aubert (19 June 1835 – 1 October 1926), better known to many by her cleric name Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whanganui River in 1885.

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Sydney Lough Thompson

Sydney Lough Thompson (24 January 1877, Oxford, New Zealand - 8 June 1973, Concarneau, France) was a New Zealand artist.

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T. W. Ratana

Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana (25 January 1873? – 18 September 1939) was the founder of the Rātana religion in the early 20th century in New Zealand.

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Tamaki Drive

Tamaki Drive is the coastal road which follows the contours of the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Tāmati Wāka Nene

Tāmati Wāka Nene (c. 1785 – 4 August 1871) was a Māori rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) who fought as an ally of the British in the Flagstaff War of 1845–46.

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Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is an online encyclopedia created by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage of the New Zealand Government.

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Te Puea Herangi

Princess Te Puea Herangi, CBE (9 November 1883 – 12 October 1952) was a Māori leader from New Zealand's Waikato region known by the name Princess Te Puea.

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Te Rangi Hīroa

Te Rangi Hīroa, also known as Sir Peter Henry Buck (ca. October 1877 – 1 December 1951), was a prominent member of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori iwi.

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Te Whiti o Rongomai

Te Whiti o Rongomai III (c. 1830–18 November 1907) was a Māori spiritual leader and founder of the village of Parihaka, in New Zealand's Taranaki region.

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Ted Morgan (boxer)

Edward "Ted" Morgan (5 April 1906 – 22 November 1952) was a boxer from New Zealand.

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Tepid Baths

The Tepid Baths are historical indoor public pools in Auckland, New Zealand.

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The Maori Merchant of Venice

The Maori Merchant of Venice (Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti) is a 2002 New Zealand drama film in the Māori language (with English subtitles), directed by Don Selwyn.

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Thomas Brunner

Thomas Brunner (April 1821 – 22 April 1874) was an English-born surveyor and explorer remembered for his exploration of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

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Thomas Forsaith

Thomas Spencer Forsaith, JP (18 July 1814 – 29 November 1898), was a New Zealand politician and an Auckland draper.

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Thomas Jeffery Parker

Thomas Jeffery Parker F.R.S. (17 October 1850 – 7 November 1897) was a zoologist who worked in New Zealand.

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Thomas Kendall

Thomas Kendall (13 December 1778 – 6 August 1832) was a New Zealand missionary, recorder of the Māori language, schoolmaster, arms dealer, and Pākehā Māori.

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Thomas Kynnersley

Thomas Alfred Sneyd Kynnersley (14 June 1839 – 1 February 1874) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the West Coast, New Zealand.

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Thomas William Hislop

Thomas William Hislop (8 April 1850 – 2 October 1925) was the Mayor of Wellington from 1905 to 1908, and had represented two South Island electorates in the New Zealand Parliament.

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Toko Ratana

Haami Tokouru (Toko) Ratana (21 July 1894 – 30 October 1944) is a former New Zealand politician and President of the Ratana Church.

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Tom Lowry

Thomas Coleman Lowry (17 February 1898 – 20 July 1976) was a New Zealand Test cricketer.

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Tom Macdonald (politician)

Sir Thomas Lachlan Macdonald (14 December 1898 – 11 April 1980) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

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Town of Christchurch by-election, 1860

The Town of Christchurch by-election in 1860 was triggered by the resignation of Richard Packer as the Member of the House of Representatives for the Town of Christchurch electorate, and occurred during the term of the 2nd New Zealand Parliament.

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Truby King

Sir Frederic Truby King (1 April 1858 – 10 February 1938), generally known as Truby King, was a New Zealand health reformer and Director of Child Welfare.

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Tuamarina

Tuamarina (often spelled Tua Marina) is a locality in Marlborough, New Zealand.

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Vernon Cracknell

Vernon Francis Cracknell (30 May 1912 – 4 June 1989) was a New Zealand politician.

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Vigor Brown

John Vigor Brown (18 June 1854 – 2 September 1942), known as Vigor Brown, was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Napier, in the North Island.

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W. H. Oliver

William Hosking Oliver (14 May 1925 – 16 September 2015), commonly known as W. H. Oliver but also known as Bill Oliver, was an eminent New Zealand historian and a poet.

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Waituhi

Waituhi is a small settlement in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Walter Oliver

Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (1883–1957) was an Australian-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, malacologist and museum curator.

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Whatuwhiwhi

Whatuwhiwhi is a settlement at the northern end of Tokerau Beach, on the Karikari Peninsula of Northland, New Zealand.

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Whina Cooper

Dame Whina Cooper (9 December 1895 – 26 March 1994) was a respected kuia (Māori elder), who worked for many years for the rights of her people, and particularly to improve the lot of Māori women.

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Whitcoulls

Whitcoulls is a major national bookstore, stationery, gift, games & toy store chain in New Zealand, formerly known as Whitcombe & Tombs.

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Who's Who in New Zealand

The Who's Who in New Zealand, originally called the Who's Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, is a collection of biographies that was first published in 1908, and the latest version is from 1991.

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Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington

Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington was a New Zealand court case of 1877 which ruled that the Treaty of Waitangi was a "simple nullity" having been signed by "primitive barbarians".

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William Colenso

William Colenso (7 November 1811 – 10 February 1899) was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand, and also a printer, botanist, explorer and politician.

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William Edward Sanders

William Edward Sanders (7 February 1883 – 14 August 1917) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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William Garnett Braithwaite

Brigadier General William Garnett Braithwaite, (21 October 1870 – 15 October 1937) was a British Army officer who participated in the Boer War and the First World War.

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William George Malone

Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone (24 January 18598 August 1915) was an officer in the New Zealand Military Forces who served in the First World War.

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William Mein Smith

William Mein Smith (1798 – 3 January 1869) was a key actor in the early settlement of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.

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William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (7 March 1853 – 23 October 1911) was a British Conservative politician.

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William Sinclair-Burgess

Major General Sir William Livingston Hatchwell Sinclair-Burgess, (18 February 1880 – 3 April 1964) was a senior officer in the New Zealand Military Forces.

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William Wakefield

William Hayward Wakefield (1801 - 19 September 1848) was an English colonel, the leader of the first colonising expedition to New Zealand and one of the founders of Wellington.

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William Williams (bishop)

William Williams (18 July 1800 – 9 February 1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu and the father and grandfather of two others.

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Wiremu Parata

Wiremu Te Kākākura Parata, also known as Wi Parata (1830s – 29 September 1906) was a New Zealand politician of Māori and Pākehā descent.

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Women's suffrage in New Zealand

Women's suffrage in New Zealand was an important political issue in the late nineteenth century.

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2nd New Zealand Division

The 2nd New Zealand Division, initially the New Zealand Division, was an infantry division of the New Zealand Military Forces (New Zealand's army) during the Second World War.

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6th Infantry Brigade (New Zealand)

The 6th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the New Zealand Military Forces, active during World War II as part of the 2nd New Zealand Division.

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