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Thomas Quoi

Thomas “Tommy” Ah Quoi was known throughout New Zealand as the unofficial head of Auckland's Chinese community in the last decades of the 1800s.

Emma Brignall Ostler

Emma Brignall Ostler was a timber and land pioneer in the Levin area as well as an advocate for women's rights particularly education and suffrage.

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.

John McCombie

John McCombie was gold prospector and miner who was a pioneer in the Coromandel and Waihi area

Tipi Tainui Rōpiha

Tipi Tainui Rōpiha was a notable surveyor and public servant of Ngāi Toroiwaho of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne

James Henry Edwards

James Henry Edwards was a political activist for workers and unemployed rights during the 1920's and 1930's.

Mina Tait Horton

Mina Tait Horton contributed to Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral.

Sir Frank Crossley Mappin

Sir Frank Crossley Mappin was born in England and came to New Zealand in 1908. After trying his hand as a farm cadet and on the North Kaipara gun fields, he bought a 20-acre orchard at Wade (later known as Silverdale).

Chhota Jivanji

Chhota Jivanji was born in Mumbai, India in 1896. He arrived in New Zealand on the Medina from Colombo in 1916 and his nationality was recorded as British. He was almost immediately called up to join the 2nd division fighting in WW1. In 1918 he helped establish New Zealand’s first Indian Association.

Amey Daldy

A woman of radical views for her age and time, Amey Daldy's legacy is that of a bold and powerful champion of equality.

Amelia Jane Haszard

Amelia was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada and came to New Zealand with her parents in 1859.

Henry Edward Partridge

Henry Edward Partridge was one of artist Gottfried Lindauer’s earliest and most dedicated patrons, having amassed a collection of more than 70 paintings by Lindauer, later known as the Partridge Collection.

Bloomfield Family

Three members of the Bloomfield family are buried next to each other in Purewa Cemetery after the tragic sinking of the ‘Empress of Ireland’ in Canada in 1914. Robert William Read Bloomfield aged 52, his wife Isabella Louise aged 46 and their daughter Hilda Isabella aged 23 all died in the disaster on May 29 1914, and their bodies were buried two months later on July 29.

William Burnaby

Dr Burnaby was a Phrenologist who was in New Zealand to deliver a series of lectures on his speciality ‘science’. It is not clear from the advertising whether he took this seriously or was rather a showman who gave a parody of the phrenologist at work.