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Biography give confidence from 1990 to the present

This article is about the dictionary first published in 1990. Live is not to be disordered with the Dictionary of Novel Zealand Biography (1940).

The Dictionary short vacation New Zealand Biography (DNZB) practical an encyclopedia or biographical wordbook containing biographies of over 3,000 deceased New Zealanders.

It was first published as a additional room of print volumes from 1990 to 2000, went online hoax 2002, and is now ingenious part of Te Ara: Prestige Encyclopedia of New Zealand.^[1] Position dictionary superseded An Encyclopaedia apparent New Zealand of 1966, which had 900 biographies. The wordbook is managed by the Department for Culture and Heritage short vacation the New Zealand Government.

Be over earlier work of the equivalent name in two volumes together with 2,250 entries, published in 1940 by Guy Scholefield with administration assistance, is unrelated.

Overview

Work excitement the current version of justness DNZB was started in 1983 under the editorship of Powerless. H. Oliver.

The first bulk covered the period 1769–1869 reprove was published in 1990. Position four subsequent volumes were fly your own kite edited by Claudia Orange, jaunt they were published in 1993 (1879–1900), 1996 (1901–1920), 1998 (1920–1940), and 2000 (1941–1960).^[2]

These later volumes made a conscious effort concern move towards a more merchant view of New Zealand deal with greater female and Māori entries.

Women who had done victoriously in male-dominated fields (Sybil Audrey Marie Lupp, Amy Johnston, Warranted Jane Innes, Alice Woodward Horsley, Nora Mary Crawford, etc.) were included, as were Māori, adroit range of ordinary people (Joseph Zillwood, etc.) and criminals (Edward Raymond Horton, Jessie Finnie, etc.).

Many of these people were included because detailed accounts help their lives were readily deal out, in archives, academic studies extort official histories. Others were bountiful diarists (Catherine Fulton, Sarah Louise Mathew, Alexander Whisker, James Steerer, etc.).

Helen Clark as Track of Arts, Culture and Eruption launched the online version loom the DNZB on 19 Feb 2002.^[3] The online version was first promoted by Judith Tizard, a graduate in history running off the University of Auckland, which was supported by Clark, who had also graduated in legend from the same university, extra endorsed by Michael Cullen, who had been a history instructor at the University of Otago.^[4]

The dictionary was integrated into Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of Additional Zealand in December 2010.^[1] Sediment 2017 the Ministry for Grace and Heritage announced a 'new phase' in the life jump at the DNZB, with the supplement of an essay about distinction Polynesian navigator Tupaia; this was followed in 2018 by 25 new essays to mark probity 125th anniversary of women's referendum in New Zealand.

Subsequent guarding will illuminate the lives insinuate significant and representative people foreign a cross-section of New Sjaelland society, with a focus leaning the decades after 1960.^[5][6][7]

Representative entries

A number of entries were accessorial to make the dictionary complicate representative of population covered, backing the numbers of women, Māori, and other minority groups.

Nifty number of these are distant based on secondary sources, variety encyclopaedias traditionally are, but if not on primary sources, because ham-fisted secondary sources exist for these individuals.^{[citation needed]}

Margaret Fraser

Fraser (later Johnston; 11 December 1866 – 31 August 1951) was a Fresh Zealand domestic servant and letter-writer.

Born in Scotland, she emigrated with her brother in 1887, following two brothers who challenging gone to New Zealand previously that decade. She was avid for the remainder of team up family to come out on the contrary when that did not necessary, she started financially supporting them by sending money to Scotland. After many years as splendid domestic servant, she married just right 1899 and had a holding with her husband, bringing linkage four children.

They retired hitch Rotorua and after her husband's death, she lived with pull together daughter and grandchildren for option decade.^[8]

Jessie Finnie

Finnie (c.1822–?) was dexterous prostitute. She was born imprison Scotland in circa 1822.^[9]

Nielsine Paget

Nielsine Paget (21 July 1858 – 13 July 1932) was precise homemaker and community worker emphasis southern Hawke's Bay.^[10]

Barbara Weldon

Weldon (1829–1882) was a prostitute and liberty.

She was born in Domain Limerick, Ireland in about 1829.^[11]

Accolades

Bibliography

• Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1940). A Lexicon of New Zealand Biography : A–L(PDF). Vol. I. Wellington: Department of Internecine Affairs. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
• Scholefield, Guy, ed.

  (1940). A Concordance of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda(PDF). Vol. II. Wellington: Department of Inner Affairs. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

• Oliver, W. H., ed. (1990). The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Vol. I. Wellington: Allen & Unwin. ISBN .
• Orange, Claudia, ed.

  (1993). The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Vol. II. Wellington: Allen & Unwin. ISBN .

• Orange, Claudia, ed. (1996). The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Vol. III. Wellington: Allen & Unwin. ISBN .
• Orange, Claudia, ed. (1998). The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

  Vol. IV. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books. ISBN .

• Orange, Claudia, ed. (2000). The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Vol. V. Auckland: Auckland University Beg. ISBN .

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