Biographies
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Ellison, Thomas Rangiwahia
Tom Ellison was captain of NZ's first official rugby team in 1893. He invented the wing forward position and in 1903 wrote one of the game's first coaching manuals.
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Bell, Francis Henry Dillon
Sir Francis Bell was PM for only 16 days, but he held several distinctions – the second oldest (74), the first New Zealand-born, and the last from the Legislative Council.
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Palmer, Geoffrey Winston
Geoffrey Palmer, the hardworking, loyal deputy who became PM when David Lange resigned dramatically in August 1989, knew that Labour was doomed. ‘What I got from Lange was a hospital pass.’
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Richmond, Christopher William
William Richmond was a lawyer, Minister in Edward Stafford’s Parliament, and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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Chapman, Frederick Revans
Frederick Chapman was a lawyer and ethnologist who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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Malone, William George
William George Malone, commander of the Wellington Battalion, was one of New Zealand's outstanding soldiers of the Gallipoli campaign.
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Main image: Frederick Chapman
Frederick Chapman was a lawyer and ethnologist who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
