Percy William Monkton Holt

Percy Holt was a pioneer in New Zealand surveying. Also a brilliant architect, he designed Purewa Cemetery's grounds and original chapel.

Ronald Fong Sang ONZM

Ronald Fong Sang was a celebrated architect and New Zealand art collector. Designing iconic Auckland homes and buildings, he has left a long standing legacy.

Charles Spencer

Charles Spencer was a photographer of high demand and preserved many natural and historic features including but far from limited to the Pink and White Terraces.

Charles Reginald Ford

Charles Reginald Ford was an explorer and architect noted for his role in the Royal Geographical Society's National Antarctic Expeditions led by Commander Robert Falcon Scott. He later co-founded one of New Zealand's most successful architectural firms.

William Henry Feldon

William Henry Feldon was world-renowned sculptor, architectural sculptor, and monumental mason. Not only known for his series of First World War memorials in New Zealand, Feldon also contributed to iconic buildings in New York, New Zealand, and England. Some notable examples include the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue and  Eton College Chapel.

Vernon Akitt Brown

Vernon Akitt Brown was an architect and university lecturer. In 1940, Vernon won the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) bronze medal for domestic architecture. From 1942 he was studio instructor at the School of Architecture at Auckland University College.

Richard Atkinson Abbott

Richard Atkinson Abbot was a New Zealand architect perhaps best known for designing the obelisk on One Tree Hill in 1941. During his career some notable highlights include the new construction of Auckland Grammar School and also King's College after its move to Middlemore.

Thomas "Darby" Ryan

Thomas Ryan was a Auckland Rugby Union Winger 1882 - 1888 and a distinguished artist who was well known for his Maori portraits.

Frank Hofmann and Helen Shaw

Frank Hofmann and Helen Shaw became leading lights in New Zealand culture. Frank, a renowned photographer, and Helen a writer and poet of distinction.  

Horace Moore-Jones

Horace Moore-Jones was the painter of one the most famous ANZAC images, “The Man with the Donkey”.

Sir Gordon Edward George Minhinnick

The name ‘Minhinnick’ was for a generation of New Zealanders synonymous with a style of cartoon that was simultaneously both pointed and subtle while delivering a strong metaphorical poke to the subject, delivered without rancor or rudeness.

Charles Frederick Goldie

Goldie was one of New Zealand’s most famed artist whose portraits of Maori are for many often the most frequently remembered representation of New Zealand’s tangata whenua (original inhabitants). Goldie trained as an artist in New Zealand and Australia, won prizes for his early work and then travelled to France to advance his studies.

Edwin Fairburn

Edwin Fairburn was a pioneer colonist responsible for laying out the town of Oamaru. He also engineered and surveyed the main road north from Takapuna to the Bay of Islands, laying the foundation for the Auckland Roads Department.