James Alexander Adams was born on 20 March 1892 in Waverley, Southland, South Island, New Zealand, the fourth of the six children of Henry Peter Adams (1864-1937) and Marjory Gavins Adams née Robb ...
Thomas Russell Bowman was born in 1893 in Wainara, Canterbury, New Zealand, the second of the three children of Thomas Bowman (1864-1895) and Annie Bowman née Carson (c.1870-1952). His two siblings...
Active in the queer arts community, once photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Vogue. Brixton was aged 41 when, cycling to work, a lorry crashed into her and she and died at the scene. According to t...
CN Co. 3'E Sinkiang. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Third Engineer Officer Leslie Caird was born on 8 April 1896 in Kaiangita, Otago, New Zealand, the sixth of the twelve children of John C...
Formed to establish a colony in what is now the Canterbury region of New Zealand.
Maritime explorer and cartographer. Born near Middlesbrough. The first to map Newfoundland, explored around Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and made the first circumnavigation of New Zealand. K...
Person, Exploring, Seriously Famous, Arctic & Antarctic, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand
Born New Zealand. Scholar at SOAS specialising in the role of women in China. Vice Principal of SOAS. 2007 awarded CMG.
Person, Education, Gender Issues, China/Hong Kong, New Zealand
New Zealand sculptor. An obituary cites the London New Zealand War Memorial as one of his major achievements.
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