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1871–1937Anglican clergyman
Charles Elliott Perry was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 19 May 1871 to Charles Stuart Perry, an Anglican clergyman, and his second wife, Esther Walker. After attending schools in Melbourne, he gained second-class honours in history at St John's College, Oxford, in 1894. He was made deacon...
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1908–1982Librarian
Charles Stuart Perry was born on 11 March 1908 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest of four children of Charles Elliott Perry, an Anglican priest, and his wife, Dorothy Frances McCrae. In 1916 his father moved the family to Christchurch, New Zealand, to take charge of St Michael and All Angels...
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1852–1941Farmer, mountaineer, guide
Peter Hinrik Peters, known in New Zealand as Harry Peters, was born on 28 April 1852 in Cleve, a small village near Heide, in Holstein, Germany, the son of Johann Hinrik Christian Peters and his wife, Anna Catharina Elisabeth Reinhold. Little is known of his early life until his arrival in New...
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1900–1978Lawyer, consul, local politician, historian
George Conrad Petersen was born in Mauriceville West, near Eketahuna, on 19 June 1900, to Danish parents Jens Peter Petersen and his wife, Anna Katrine Nielsen. They developed a small farm and Jens was a founding director of the Mauriceville Dairy Company. He also worked on building the...
Story: Petersen, George Conrad
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1847–1918Civil engineer, architect, consular agent
Francis William Petre, often known as Frank, was born at Petone, New Zealand, on 27 August 1847, the third of 16 children of Henry William Petre and his wife, Mary Anne Ellen Walmsley. His father, one of the founders of Wellington and colonial treasurer of New Munster, was the second son of...
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1846–1925Teacher, school inspector, botanist
Donald Petrie was born in the parish of Edinkillie, Morayshire, Scotland, on 7 September 1846, the son of Alexander Petrie, a farmer, and his wife, Isabel Morrison. Donald was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, and later attended the University of Aberdeen, graduating MA in 1867. He taught...
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1885–1985Doctor, medical missionary, religious fundamentalist
William Haddow Pettit, who was born on 13 April 1885 in Nelson, New Zealand, was the son of Thomas Pettit, a grocer, Baptist, temperance advocate and (later) city councillor, and his wife, Isabella Haddow. William was from youth a brilliant student and skilful debater. Deeply impressed by the...
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1921–1985Ngāti Porou; shearer, performer, teacher, songwriter, cultural adviser
Te Kumeroa Ngoingoi Ngāwai was born on 29 December 1921 at Tokomaru Bay, East Coast. She was the eldest of five children of Hōri Ngāwai of Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare of Ngāti Porou of Tokomaru Bay, and his wife, Wikitōria Te Karu, of Ngāti Koi in the Hauraki region. Known affectionately as Ngoi,...
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1811–1880Missionary, priest
Born at Chanonat in the diocese of Clermont, France, on 17 May 1811, Jean Pezant, later known as Jean Étienne Pezant, was the son of a farmer, Michel Pezant, and his wife, Marie. He studied at the seminary of St Sulpice in Paris and became a curate at Romagnat, Clermont, before joining the...
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1894–1980Soldier, businessman, journalist, lecturer, trade unionist
William Noel Pharazyn was born in Wellington on 10 April 1894, the son of Maud Eleanor Kempthorne and her husband, Charles Pharazyn, a sheepfarmer from a prominent Wellington business and farming family. His grandfather, Charles Johnson Pharazyn, and an uncle, Robert Pharazyn, were members of...
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1852?–1909Bandsman, labourer, carrier
Michael Henry Phelan was born in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, probably in 1852, the son of John Phelan, a blacksmith, and his wife, Kate Morgan. As a teenager he became a violinist in an orchestra touring the Continent. Unfortunately, his wrists were damaged when a coach he was travelling...
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1922–2006Race relations campaigner and polemicist
Hilda Phillips was one of the best-known and most persistent critics of the Māori land, resource rights and autonomy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s. She attacked the foundations of Māori grievances against the Crown, and government policies which, in her view, privileged Māori over other...
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1814?–1845Naval officer
George Phillpotts was one of 14 children of Henry Phillpotts, vicar of St Margaret's, Durham, England, and later lord bishop of Exeter, and his wife, Deborah Maria Surtees; his date and place of birth are unknown, but he was baptised in Durham on 26 January 1814. It is not known whether he...
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1870–1930Milk factory worker, museum curator, entomologist, writer
Alfred Philpott (Phillpot) was born on 15 December 1870 in Tysoe, Warwickshire, England, one of ten children of William Philpott (Philpotts), a farm labourer, and his wife, Mary Ann Wilkins. William lost his job following an industrial dispute, and with his family and relatives of his wife...
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1817–1899Doctor, hospital superintendent
The eldest child of Eliza Ball and her husband, Matthew Philson, a mathematics master at a large private school, Thomas Moore Philson was born at Londonderry, County Londonderry, Ireland, probably on 10 August 1817. He was educated by his father before entering the University of Edinburgh in...
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1908–1989Bank clerk, naval officer
Peter Phipps was born in Sydney on 7 December 1908, the son of Fanny Josephine Seymour (née McOwen), who had married Claude Hamilton Seymour in Christchurch on 9 September 1908. He believed his father was Robert Julian Scott, a Canterbury College professor. He was brought up in the Seymour...
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1903–1988Plastic surgeon
Cecily Mary Wise Clarkson was born in Taihape on 9 February 1903, the daughter of Margaret Ann Hunter and her husband, Percy Wise Clarkson, the first Anglican vicar of Taihape. She was educated at Taihape School and at the Diocesan High School for Girls, Auckland. In 1921 she began medical...
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1879–1956Dental surgeon and researcher, university administrator, plastic surgeon
Henry Percy Pickerill was born in Hereford, England, on 3 August 1879, the son of Mary Ann Gurney and her husband, Thomas Pickerill, a commercial clerk, later the managing director of a tile factory. He attended Hereford County College, and the universities of Oxford and Birmingham. His first...
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1908–1971Secretary, interior decorator, artist
Alison Blomfield Pickmere was born in Mount Eden, Auckland, on 14 November 1908, the daughter of Elinor Violet Croyden Woolley and her husband, Arnold George Pickmere, a railway manager. After leaving school she wanted to be an artist, but succumbed to pressure and postponed a career that her...
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1906–1974Psychologist, anthropologist, university professor
Ralph O’Reilly Piddington was born on 19 February 1906 in Sydney, Australia, the son of Albert Bathurst Piddington, a barrister and later judge, and his wife, Marion Louisa O’Reilly, a eugenist writer and lecturer. He enrolled at the University of Sydney in 1925 and graduated BA in 1928,...
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