Sir Māui Wiremu Pita Naera Pōmare was a New Zealand medical doctor and politician,being counted among the more prominent Māori political figures. He is particularly known for his efforts to improve Māori health and living conditions. However,Pōmare's career was not without controversy:he negotiated the effective removal of the last of Taranaki Māori land from its native inhabitants –some 18,000 acres –in a move which has been described as the "final disaster" for his people. He was a member of the Ngati Mutunga iwi originally from North Taranaki;he later lived in Wellington and the Chatham Islands after the 1835 invasion.
Sir Ian Hugh Kāwharu was an academic and paramount chief of the Ngāti Whātua Māori tribe in New Zealand.
Te Pīhopatanga o Te Manawa o Te Wheke is an episcopal polity or diocese of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa,New Zealand and Polynesia. Literally,the diocese is the Anglican bishopric of the heart of the octopus of the North Island of Aotearoa,New Zealand;also known as the synod.
Sir Charles Manley Luke was a New Zealand politician and company director. He served as mayor of Wellington in 1895. His brother,Sir John Luke,was later mayor of Wellington from 1913 to 1921.
Henry Williams was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century.
Reader Gillson Wood was a 19th-century New Zealand politician. An architect by trade,he designed the 1854 General Assembly House built as New Zealand's first meeting house for the House of Representatives.
Wiremu "Wi" Pere,was a Māori Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He represented Eastern Māori in the House of Representatives from 1884 to 1887,and again from 1893 to 1905. Pere's strong criticism of the government's Māori land policies and his involvement in the turbulent land wars in the 1860s and 1870s made him a revered Māori leader and he was known throughout his career as an contentious debator and outstanding orator in the use of the Māori language.
Wiremu Te Kākākura Parata,also known as Wi Parata was a New Zealand politician of Māori and Pākehādescent. During the 1870s he was a member of the House of Representatives and a Minister of the Crown.
Hoani Nahi,also spelled Hoani Nahe,was a Māori member of the House of Representatives,author and historian.
Wiremu Te Morehu Maipapa Te Wheoro (1826–1895),also known as Major Te Wheoro and later as Wiremu Te Morehu or William Morris,was a 19th-century Māori member of the House of Representatives.
George Hart was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Canterbury region of New Zealand.
Wiremu Tako Ngātata was a New Zealand Te Āti Awa leader,peacemaker and politician.
Wiremu "Piri" Te Ranga Poutapu was a New Zealand Māori master carver and carpenter. He identified with the Ngāti Korokīand Waikato iwi. He was born in Maungatautari,Waikato,New Zealand in 1905. He was known as Piri,the Māori transliteration of Bill,short for William,of which his first name Wiremu is the Māori transliteration.
Wiremu Rikihana was a New Zealand tribal leader and politician. Of Māori descent,he identified with the Te Rarawa iwi. He was born in Waireia,Northland,New Zealand,in about 1851. On 1 June 1923,he was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council. He served until the end of his term on 31 May 1930.
George Clarke was a New Zealand missionary,teacher,public servant,politician and judge. He was born in Wymondham,Norfolk,England on 27 January 1798. He joined the Church Missionary Society (CMS). Clarke married Martha Elizabeth Blomfield. the second daughter of Ezekiel Blomfield,a Congregational minister.
Thomas Cass was one of New Zealand's pioneer surveyors.
The New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS) is a mission society working within the Anglican Communion and Protestant,Evangelical Anglicanism. The parent organisation was founded in England in 1799. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent missionaries to settle in New Zealand. The Rev. Samuel Marsden,the Society's Agent and the Senior Chaplain to the New South Wales government,officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814,at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands,New Zealand.
Wiremu is a masculine given name,the Māori form of William. Notable people with the name include:
The 1891 Northern Maori by-election was a by-election during the 11th New Zealand Parliament. The election was held on 7 February 1891.
The Waterhouse Ministry was a responsible government which held power in New Zealand from October 1872 to March 1873,led by the Hon. George Waterhouse from the Legislative Council. It is notable as the first Ministry to include Māori as members of Cabinet.
