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1877–1941Rural women's advocate
Florence Ada Mary Lamb Wilson was born on 4 October 1877 at Aberfeldy, Victoria, Australia, the sixth child of John Alfred Wilson, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Martha Brown Lamb. After being educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, and later at a Catholic finishing school...
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1875–1960Farmer, journalist, politician, farmers' union leader
William John Polson was born at Whanganui on 6 June 1875, the elder of two children of Scottish immigrants Donald Gunn Polson, a farmer, and his wife, Janet Campbell Gillies. He grew up on his father's property, Manurewa, at Mangamāhū, near Whanganui. His upbringing in a thrifty Presbyterian...
Story: Polson, William John
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?–1826Ngāpuhi warrior, trader
Pōmare, originally named Whētoi, the son of Puhi of Ngāti Manu, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was connected by descent to Ngāpuhi hapū Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Rāhiri and Ngāti Hine, and to the independent tribe Ngāti Wai. In October 1814 Samuel Marsden, the chaplain of...
Story: Pōmare I
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?–1850Ngāpuhi leader, war leader, trader
Pōmare II, known as Whiria as a young man, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He lived in the southern Bay of Islands, in the territory of Ngāti Manu, of Ngāpuhi. His connection to this hapū was through his mother, Haki, the elder sister of Whētoi, also known as Pōmare or...
Story: Pōmare II
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fl. 1863–1864Ngāpuhi tour party member
Hariata, a Ngāpuhi woman from Te Ahuahu, near Ōhaeawai, was the daughter of Pikimana Tūtapuiti and the wife of Hāre Pōmare, the son of Pōmare II, of Ngāti Manu. Both Hariata and Hāre were young adults when they visited England in 1863 with a tour party of Māori people organised by William...
Story: Pōmare, Hāre
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1875/1876?–1930Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa; medical officer, Māori health reformer, politician
Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s who were to assume positions of leadership in both the Māori and Pākehā worlds. His birthplace was Pāhau pā, Ōnaera, near Urenui, Taranaki. According to a school register he was...
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1877–1971Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki; community leader
Mildred Amelia Woodbine Johnson (also known as Mīria Tāpapa) was born on 24 December 1877 in Poverty Bay at Ahipākura, east of Gisborne. Her mother, Mere Hape, was of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki descent, from Manutūkē, near Gisborne. Her father, James Woodbine Johnson, a Cambridge...
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?–1851Ngāti Mutunga leader
Pōmare, often known as Pōmare Ngātata, was born in the early nineteenth century; his age was estimated as 30 in 1834. The names of his parents are unknown. He may have been descended from the chief Piritaka of Ngāti Kura hapū of Ngāti Mutunga. He was closely related to Ngātata-i-te-rangi of...
Story: Pōmare, Wiremu Piti
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1801–1871Bishop, missionary
Jean Baptiste François Pompallier was born in Lyons, France, on 11 December 1801, the third son of Françoise Pompallier and her husband, Pierre Pompallier, who died 8½ months after the birth. François, as he was called by his family, received the education of a gentleman. For a time he served...
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1846–1941Analytical chemist, homoeopathic pharmacist
James Alexander Pond was born on 27 September 1846 in London, England, the son of Frances Sophia Beacon and her husband, James Alexander Pond. His father was a dyer, introducing him to chemistry at an early age. Initially employed as an errand boy in a large London chemical firm, he acquired...
Story: Pond, James Alexander
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1908–2008Forester, botanist, public servant
Lindsay Poole was a forester and senior public servant who guided the New Zealand Forest Service, first as assistant director then as director, during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His career followed an upward trajectory from skilled forestry worker during the depression, to...
Story: Poole, Alick Lindsay
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1900–1961Writer, journalist, poetry anthologist, war correspondent
Charles Quentin Fernie Pope, known as Quentin, was born in Whanganui on 21 October 1900, the youngest of seven children of Charles Quentin Fernie Pope, a master mariner, and his wife, Lillian Taudevin. Quentin was educated in Whanganui, but when he was 12 his father died and he left school to...
Story: Pope, Charles Quentin Fernie
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1837–1913Teacher, school inspector, educationalist, writer
James Henry Pope was born at St Helier, Jersey, probably on 11 September 1837, the son of Jane Dacombe and her husband, James Pope, a confectioner. He was educated privately before he emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, with his parents about 1852.
Pope spent the next five or so years in...
Story: Pope, James Henry
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1818–1909Shopkeeper, businesswoman
Maria Sophia Bloor was born on 20 August 1818 in London, England, the eldest daughter of Ann Banson and her husband, John Wesley Bloor, a timber merchant. Maria Bloor married Thomas Pope, a registered dyer, at London, probably in 1835. They had two children before Thomas Pope's death in 1850...
Story: Pope, Maria Sophia
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1863–1939Lawyer, local politician, conservationist
Dugald Louis Poppelwell was born on 2 July 1863 at his parents’ farm, Sunwick, at Tokomairiro, South Otago, New Zealand. He was the 10th of 12 children of William Poppelwell, a Scottish mariner turned farmer, and his wife, Catherine Robertson McLachlan. From 1853 they farmed Sunwick,...
Story: Poppelwell, Dugald Louis
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1902–1994Philosopher
Karl Raimund Popper was born in Vienna, Austria, on 28 July 1902, the son of Simon Siegmund Carl Popper, a lawyer, and his wife, Jenny Schiff. He turned his inquisitive and enterprising mind to a variety of activities. He was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker, joined a youth organisation where he...
Story: Popper, Karl Raimund
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1900–1994Athlete, doctor, sports administrator, governor general
Arthur Espie Porritt was born at Whanganui on 10 August 1900, the son of Ernest Edward Porritt, a medical practitioner, and his wife, Ivy Elizabeth McKenzie. His mother died in 1914 during his first year at Wanganui Collegiate School and, as his father left soon after to serve in the First...
Story: Porritt, Arthur Espie
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1843–1920Soldier, land purchase officer
Thomas William Potter was born in Streatham, Surrey, England, on 2 August 1843, the son of John Potter, an agricultural labourer, and his wife, Jane Phipps. He later changed his name to Porter and claimed to have been born in India, the son of John William Porter, an officer in the 7th Bengal...
Story: Porter, Thomas William
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?–1895Ngāti Porou leader
Hēnare Pōtae was possibly born in the late 1820s. He belonged to Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of Ngāti Porou. His father was Te Pōtaeaute, also known as Ēnoka Pōtae, who signed a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi on 9 June 1840 at Tokomaru Bay. His mother was Mākere Te Materonea, a woman of mana in...
Story: Pōtae, Hēnare
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1904–1994Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Rākaipaaka; Presbyterian minister, soldier, writer
Hēmi Pōtatau was born on 20 May 1904 at Te Mimi o Te Hiki, Nūhaka, the ninth of 12 children of Hata Pōtatau, also known as Tīpene, and his wife, Te Raita (Taraita) Rore, also known as Te Waimātao. His father had links to the ariki Te Kani a Takirau of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāti Porou through...
Story: Pōtatau, Hēmi