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1926–2007Teacher, developmental and child psychologist, literacy researcher
Marie Clay was an influential literacy researcher and educationalist whose pioneering Reading Recovery programme changed the experience of learning to read for many children in many countries. She sometimes quoted Allen Curnow’s lines, ‘Simply by sailing in a new direction / You could enlarge...
Story: Clay, Marie Mildred
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1829–1899Journalist, emigration agent
Arthur Clayden was born on 9 August 1829 at Wallingford, Berkshire, England. He was the second of four children of Eliza Mary Greene and her husband, Peter Clayden, an ironmonger. Arthur's education included a time at Clewer House School, Windsor. He later recalled the school lining the Long...
Story: Clayden, Arthur
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1823–1877Architect
William Henry Clayton was born on 17 November 1823, at Norfolk Plains, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). He was one of 12 children of Henry Clayton and his wife, Mary McLaughlan. William was educated at the local Longford Hall Academy, where he won prizes in Latin, French, mathematics and geography...
Story: Clayton, William Henry
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1859–1929Catholic bishop, editor, army chaplain
Henry William Cleary (baptised William Henry) was born on 15 January 1859 at Oulart, County Wexford, Ireland. His Catholic father, Robert Cleary, a farmer, came from the neighbouring county of Wicklow and settled in Wexford after marrying Susan Wall, a convert from Anglicanism.
Despite a...
Story: Cleary, Henry William
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1900–1962Lawyer, judge
Timothy Patrick Cleary was born in Meeanee, Hawke’s Bay, on 27 April 1900, the son of Patrick Cleary, a labourer, and his Irish-born wife, Margaret McCartin. He spent his early life in Mangaweka, where his family became small farmers. After attending Mangaweka School he went to St Patrick’s...
Story: Cleary, Timothy Patrick
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1850–1902Doctor
George Cleghorn was born in Calcutta, Bengal, India, on 1 September 1850, the son of Susan Price and her husband, James Cleghorn, a harbour pilot. He received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, London, and qualified LSA and MRCS in 1872. He later gained the degree of MD from the...
Story: Cleghorn, George
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1800–1872Ship owner, merchant, consul, magistrate
According to family information James Reddy Clendon was born in Deal, Kent, England, on 1 October 1800; he was baptised there on 22 October. He was the son of George Clendon, pilot of the Cinque Ports, and his wife, Elizabeth Chitty. James Clendon began his business career as a ship owner in...
Story: Clendon, James Reddy
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1856–1952Architect
Frederick de Jersey Clere was born at Walsden, Lancashire, England, on 7 January 1856, the second son of Ellen Vaughan and her husband, Henry Clere, an Anglican clergyman. Frederick was educated at St John's School, Clapton, and then at the age of 16 articled to the architect Edmund Evan Scott...
Story: Clere, Frederick de Jersey
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1921–2014Journalist, photographer, political scientist, musician, composer, broadcaster, poet, bushman, mountaineer
Les Cleveland made important contributions to New Zealand’s visual, musical, literary and academic culture. There were overlaps, continuities and connections between all his diverse interests, which ranged from the practical (including bushcraft, welding and mountaineering), to the creative (...
Story: Cleveland, Francis Leslie
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1881–1968Property owner
Annette Mary Eleanor Jane Thomas was born at Akaroa on 5 November 1881, the daughter of John Woodill Thomas, a farmer, and his wife, Eliza Ann Bates. Annette’s father died three months before she was born, and her mother married John Hewitt, a contractor, in 1884. As a child Annette lived at...
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1813–1893Pastoralist, politician, businessman
Charles Clifford was born at Mt Vernon, Lancashire, England, on 1 January 1813, the eldest of nine children of George Lambert Clifford and his wife, Mary Coyney. The Cliffords were an important Roman Catholic family with aristocratic forebears, and Charles was a cousin of William Vavasour,...
Story: Clifford, Charles
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1893–1970Public servant, trade commissioner
George William Clinkard was born on 17 September 1893 in Auckland, the son of English parents Cecil Henry Clinkard and his wife, Julia Letitia Hooper. His father, a farmer at Makarau on the Kaipara Harbour, was later a mayor and member of Parliament for Rotorua. After attending Auckland Grammar...
Story: Clinkard, George William
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1840–1910Farm worker, character
Abner Clough, also known as Amura, was born and baptised on 13 September 1840 at Akaroa, New Zealand. His father, James Robinson Clough, also known as Jimmy Robinson, had arrived at Akaroa several years before. He acted as interpreter for Captain Owen Stanley at the flag-raising of 1840, and...
Story: Clough, Abner
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1883–1974Teacher, community leader, writer
Nellie Euphemia Coad, daughter of Annie Venters McLauchlan, a schoolteacher, and her husband, James Hook Coad, a brewer, was born at New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 15 October 1883. After attending a primary school in Victoria, Australia, Nellie was a pupil of Wellington Girls' High School. In...
Story: Coad, Nellie Euphemia
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1851–1935Sportsman, banker
James Hugh Buchanan Coates was appointed general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand in 1893, at a time when confidence in the banking sector in New Zealand had reached a very low ebb. His reputation in the colony and his abilities as a banker enabled the National Bank to prosper in...
Story: Coates, James Hugh Buchanan
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1878–1943Farmer, politician, soldier, prime minister
The Coates brothers, Edward and Thomas, who sailed into the Waitematā Harbour on 19 October 1866 aboard the Winterthur, came from a long-established Herefordshire gentry family. As younger sons of a large family they would not inherit land, but in New Zealand their brother-in-law George...
Story: Coates, Joseph Gordon
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1909–1977Governor general
Born on 8 August 1909 in Kensington, London, Charles John Lyttelton was the son of Violet Yolande Leonard and her husband, John Cavendish Lyttelton, who in 1922 was to become the ninth Viscount Cobham. The family had historical ties to New Zealand: Charles’s great-grandfather, after whom the...
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1912–1995Social reformer, sex educator, teacher
Joan Embury Feltham was born in Wellington on 16 October 1912, the second child of Harriett Embury and her husband, Edgar Charles Feltham, a schoolteacher. Her elder sister died in 1914 and her brother required constant care due to brain damage following a birth mishap. Joan grew up in a...
Story: Cochran, Joan Embury
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1895–1977Military aviator, air force leader
Ralph Alexander Cochrane was born at Springfield, Fife, Scotland, on 24 February 1895, the son of Gertrude Julia Georgina Boyle and her husband, Thomas Horatio Arthur Ernest Cochrane, the first Baron Cochrane of Cults. Educated at Osborne and Dartmouth, he entered the Royal Navy in 1912,...
Story: Cochrane, Ralph Alexander
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1855–1921Shipping company manager, patron of the arts
Joseph Henry Cock was born at Calstock, Cornwall, England, on 25 January 1855, the son of Joseph Cock and his wife, Mary Ann Honeycomb. His connection with Nelson, New Zealand, began in 1864 when his father, a copper mine agent, travelled there to advise the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company....
Story: Cock, Joseph Henry