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1888–1953Ngāpuhi and Te Roroa leader, interpreter, land court agent
Louis Wellington Parore was born at Te Houhanga marae, Dargaville, on 26 December 1888. According to tradition, he was the first of his people born in a European-style house and was known to his family as Te Rūma (the room), although he was more generally known as Lou Parore. His father, Pouaka...
Story: Parore, Louis Wellington
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1869–1941Lawyer, mayor, politician, diplomat
Christopher James Parr was born on 18 May 1869 at Pukerimu, near Cambridge, New Zealand, the son of Reuben Parr, a farmer, and his wife, Maria Greaves. Although the family shifted to Waihou, near Te Aroha, when James was nine, his upbringing continued to centre on a very tough farm life. For...
Story: Parr, Christopher James
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1816?–1904School administrator, politician, public servant, interpreter, soldier, judge
Robert Reid Parris, son of William and Agnes Parris, was baptised on 16 May 1816 at Chard, Somerset, England. His forebears, of French protestant origin, had settled in Dorset in the sixteenth century; his father was a farmer. Robert married Mary Whitmore at Colyton, Somerset, on 18 October...
Story: Parris, Robert Reid
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1865–1938Electrical engineer
Evan Parry was born on 30 November 1865 at Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire, Wales, the son of William Parry, a slate quarry agent, and his wife, Eliza Williams. Evan was educated in Bangor and worked for a firm of marine engineers before moving to Glasgow University in 1890 to take a BSc degree...
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1878–1952Miner, trade unionist, politician
William (Bill) Edward Parry was born at Orange, New South Wales, in 1878. He was one of 13 children of John Parry, a goldminer and prospector, and his wife, Emily Wright. The hardships faced by his family were to be a formative influence on him. Parry left school at the age of 12 and worked in...
Story: Parry, William Edward
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1846–1924Singer
Elizabeth Widdop was born at London, England, on 10 February 1846, the third of four children and the elder daughter of William Widdop, a coachman, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and his wife, Hannah Byatt, of Cheadle, Staffordshire. On 25 June 1855 the Widdop family left Gravesend for New Zealand...
Story: Parsons, Elizabeth
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1909–1991Bookseller
Roy Parsons sold books in Wellington for nearly 50 years, changing the intellectual climate of the city and opening the minds of several generations of New Zealanders to the world of books and ideas. The son of a schoolmaster, George Henry Parsons, and his wife, Beatrice Sparrow, Roy George...
Story: Parsons, Roy George
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1908–1976Architect
Arnold Paul Pascoe (registered at birth as Edward Arnold, but always known as Paul) was born at Christchurch on 26 September 1908. He was the younger of twin sons of Guy Dobrée Pascoe, a solicitor, and his wife, Effie Denham. Following schooling at Sumner and Christ’s College, Paul commenced...
Story: Pascoe, Arnold Paul
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1908–1972Mountaineer, photographer, writer, editor, historian, archivist
John Dobrée Pascoe was born at Christchurch on 26 September 1908, the elder of twin sons of Effie Denham and her husband, Guy Dobrée Pascoe, a prominent solicitor. After primary education at Sumner School, John attended Christ’s College (1921–27). Always slightly uncomfortable in conformist...
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1880–1937School doctor, child health administrator, community worker
Ada Gertrude Paterson was born at Caversham, Dunedin, New Zealand, on 6 June 1880. She was the daughter of Margaret Smith Ayton and her husband, James Paterson, for many years librarian at the Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute. Ada completed her secondary education as dux in 1898 of...
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1902–1968Cartoonist, illustrator, museum and art gallery curator
Alan Stuart Paterson was born in Hawera on 24 January 1902, the son of Ada Fannie Butler and her husband, Alexander Paterson, a draper, who was later an art dealer. He was a nephew of George Butler, New Zealand’s official war artist in the First World War. By 1907 the family had moved to...
Story: Paterson, Alan Stuart
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1863/1864?–1921Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kuia leader, religious founder
Haimona (Simon) Pātete (also known as Haimona Turi) was born on Rangitoto (D'Urville Island), in the Marlborough Sounds, probably in 1863 or 1864. Te Putu, his grandfather, and Turi Te Pātete, his father, were among the Ngāti Koata leaders who accompanied their Ngāti Toa relatives on the...
Story: Pātete, Haimona
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1859–1937Blacksmith, farmer, landowner
James John Patterson was born in New Plymouth on 17 October 1859. His father, George Patterson, an engineer, had emigrated to New Zealand with his wife, Elizabeth, in the Katherine Stewart Forbes in 1852 and established a steam sawmill in the Grey district, outside New Plymouth. After...
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1827–1871Missionary, teacher, linguist, bishop
John Coleridge Patteson is said to have been born at Bloomsbury, London, England, on 1 April 1827, the eldest son of John Patteson, barrister, and his second wife, Frances Duke Coleridge, a niece of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1830 his father became a judge of the court of King's Bench...
Story: Patteson, John Coleridge
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1881–1937Plunket nurse, nursing administrator
Annie (later known as Anne) Pattrick was born on 19 July 1881 at Christchurch, the fifth of nine children of Joseph Laughton Pattrick, a butcher, and his wife, Mary Dennis. She developed a passion for nursing, which she later attributed to a time during her childhood when she nursed one of her...
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1810–1820?–1900Ngāi Tahu leader, whaler, goldminer, storekeeper
Pātuki, of Ngāi Tahu, was born at Waipahi, Murihiku (South Otago/Southland), possibly as early as 1810 or as late as 1820, while his parents were returning to the Canterbury Plains area after a muttonbirding expedition. His mother was Te Wairua and his father was Henry Te Marama. Pātuki was...
Story: Pātuki, Tōpi
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?–1872Ngāpuhi leader, peacemaker, trader, government adviser
Patuone was the eldest son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the elder brother of Nene. Through his father he was descended from Rāhiri, ancestor of Ngāpuhi; through his mother, Te Kawehau, he was descended from Te Wairua, the ancestor also of Rewa (Mānu), Hongi Hika...
Story: Patuone, Eruera Maihi
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1863–1952Salvation Army officer
Annette Paul was one of a small number of educated women who were influential in the fledgeling Salvation Army in New Zealand. Born in Auckland on 4 November 1863, she was the daughter of Annette McKellar and her husband, James Paul, a major in the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment...
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1908–1965Bookseller, publisher
David Blackwood Paul, always called Blackwood, was born at Auckland on 12 October 1908. His father, William Henry Paul, had opened a bookshop, Paul’s Book Arcade, in Hamilton in 1901, and married Isabella Josephine Entrican in January 1905. Blackwood, ‘a very precious and delicate little boy’,...
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1945–2003Visual artist, writer
Prolific and multi-talented, Joanna Paul was one of the most gifted artists of her generation. Intensely responsive to the world around her, she depicted her surroundings, constantly reworking the conventions of drawing and watercolour painting. Paul also documented her environment in...
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