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1839?–1903Businessman, ironsands entrepreneur
John Chambers was born at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and baptised there on 22 October 1839. He was the son of Ann Wyman and her husband, George Chambers, a farmer. After an apprenticeship as a coppersmith in Greenwich, he established a business on his own account in...
Story: Chambers, John
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1859–1931Sheepfarmer, viticulturist, wine-maker
Joseph Bernard Chambers was born at Te Mata, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, on 12 March 1859, the sixth child of Margaret Wills Knox and her husband, John Chambers, a sheepfarmer who by 1863 owned 14,793 acres of land at Te Mata. After attending Havelock School from 1867 then Napier Grammar School...
Story: Chambers, Joseph Bernard
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1842–1915Engineer, surveyor, novelist
George Chamier, the son of William Chamier and his wife, Emily Crookenden, came from a prominent Huguenot family that had been in England since 1691. His great-grandmother's brother, Anthony Chamier, a prominent civil servant, had been an original member of Dr Samuel Johnson's Literary Club and...
Story: Chamier, George
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1889–1969Storekeeper, market gardener, landowner
Chan Lit Chong, known in New Zealand as Tommy Chan, was born in May 1889 near Canton (Guangzhou), China, to peasant farmer Chan Kwong Yee and his wife, Foon Tong. He was the eldest of the couple’s four children. In 1908 he emigrated to New Zealand with a minimum of village school education and...
Story: Chan, Tommy
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1791–1855Missionary
Anne Maria Maynard, daughter of Sarah Binfield and her husband, Thomas Maynard, a butcher, was born on 13 January 1791, at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Her future husband, Thomas, was also born there on 20 June 1792, the son of Sarah Greenwood and her husband, William Chapman, a...
Story: Chapman, Anne Maria
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1849–1936Lawyer, judge, ethnologist
Frederick Revans Chapman was born at Wellington, New Zealand, on 3 February 1849. He was the fifth child of Henry Samuel Chapman, puisne judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and his wife, Catherine Brewer, the daughter of an English barrister. When he was three years old his father was...
Story: Chapman, Frederick Revans
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1824–1881Merchant, bookseller, publisher
George Thomson Chapman (baptised George) was born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 14 June 1824, the son of Charles Chapman, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Wood. He became an apprentice in a general store and is said to have educated himself in his leisure hours. At the end of his...
Story: Chapman, George Thomson
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1803–1881Journalist, lawyer, newspaper proprietor and editor, judge, philologist
Henry Samuel Chapman was born in Kennington, London, England, on 21 July 1803, the son of Henry Chapman, a civil servant in the Barrack Department, and his wife, Ann Hart Davies. He was educated in schools at Bromley, Kent, and at London. His career began in banking in London but he travelled...
Story: Chapman, Henry Samuel
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1892–1973Hospital matron, nursing administrator
Pansy Helen Auld Chapman was born at Blacks Point, Reefton, on 24 November 1892. Her parents, Hender Chapman, a miner, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Richards, were both from Cornwall. At the age of 19 Helen Chapman trained in Dunedin as a Karitane baby nurse. She then took her general nurse...
Story: Chapman, Pansy Helen Auld
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1922–2004Political scientist
Robert (Bob) Chapman, the inaugural professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland, was an academic leader and an insightful and penetrating commentator on current affairs. He was involved in a wide range of cultural areas, including literature and the visual arts, but his...
Story: Chapman, Robert McDonald
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1896–1995Doctor, medical superintendent, welfare worker
Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman was born in Dunedin on 27 November 1896, the youngest of five children of Clara Jane Cook and her husband, Frederick Revans Chapman, a barrister, who in 1903 was to become the first New Zealand-born Supreme Court judge. She was educated at Woodford House from 1912...
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1910–1980Botanist, university professor, conservationist
Valentine Jackson Chapman was born on St Valentine’s Day (14 February) 1910, at Alcester, Warwickshire, England, the son of Thomas Jackson Chapman, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Amy Evelyn Wynn. He was educated at Marlborough College, and graduated MA in botany from the University of...
Story: Chapman, Valentine Jackson
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1878–1958Architect, builder, photographer, astrologer
James Walter Chapman Taylor was born in London, England, on 24 June 1878, the son of Theodore Chapman Taylor and his wife, Ada Thomas. Theodore was an agricultural graduate and quantity surveyor and Ada a teacher, linguist and journalist. In 1879 Theodore came out to New Zealand, where he...
Story: Chapman-Taylor, James Walter
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1865–1947Salvation Army officer, Presbyterian minister, Unitarian minister, pacifist, controversialist
James Henry George Chapple was born on 23 August 1865 at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. His parents were William Sandy Chapple, a butcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Bancroft, both English immigrants. William drowned on 23 April 1867, aged 29, and a baby born subsequent to his death and...
Story: Chapple, James Henry George
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1802/1803?–1869Sealer, whaler, pilot
Thomas Chaseland was born probably in Australia in 1802 or 1803. His surname may have been Chasland, Chaseling or Chasling, but Chaseland is the form which occurs most commonly in contemporary records of him. Chaseland himself was illiterate. His father was an English settler and his mother an...
Story: Chaseland, Thomas
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1868–1939Farmer, military leader
Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor was born in Motueka, New Zealand, on 21 June 1868, the first child of Emma Fearon and her husband, John Clervaux Chaytor, a runholder. Between 1880 and 1884 he attended Nelson College as a boarder. After leaving school he took up sheepfarming on the family...
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1845–1923Botanist, museum director, teacher
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, on 8 June 1845, one of five children of Eliza Cawkwell and her husband, Thomas Cheeseman, a Methodist minister. The family emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, arriving in April 1854. Thomas Cheeseman senior became involved in...
Story: Cheeseman, Thomas Frederick
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1913–1985Musician, music teacher, conductor, composer
The son of Ada Mary Hopkinson Pearce and her husband, Astley Hector Cheesman, a painter, Oswald Astley Cheesman was born in Christchurch on 13 September 1913. He was educated at Elmwood School, Christchurch Boys’ High School and Hamilton High School. His interest in music first manifested...
Story: Cheesman, Oswald Astley
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1862–1939Homemaker, dairy worker, petitioner, charwoman
Annie Dowd was born on 24 May 1862 in County Kerry, Ireland, the daughter of Patrick Dowd, a buyer, and his wife, Elizabeth Foley. At the age of 16 she went to New Zealand as an assisted immigrant, listed as a general servant. On 22 October 1878 her ship, City of Auckland, bound for Hawke's Bay...
Story: Chemis, Annie
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1877/1878?–1937Nō Ngā Puhi; he wahine whai mana
Ko Te Paea te tamāhine pakeke a Hēmi Tonoriri Kīngi rāua ko Ākinihi Ngaro Parāone (Brown). I heke mai te matua o Hēmi i a Te Whareumu o Ngāti Manu, e kīia nei ko Ngāpuhi i nāianei. Ko tōna whaea, ko Ākinihi anō te mea pakeke o ngā tamāhine a Hōne rāua ko Rīria Parāone. He uri ngātahi ōna mātua...
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