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Frances Mary Parker, OBE MP (1875 - 1924)
New Zealand-born suffrage activist Frances Parker became prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and was repeatedly imprisoned for her actions. She was awarded the Wome...
Edith Joan Lyttleton MP (1873 - 1945)
The author of a dozen novels and many scores of short stories that were widely read in New Zealand during the first four decades of the twentieth century, Edith Joan Lyttleton was born on 18 December 1...
Kathleen Airini Vane (1891 - 1965)
"Kathleen Airini Vane", "Kitty Airini Vane", "Kitty", "The Pohutakawa Lady"
Airini, or Kitty, Vane was notable for her watercolours of mountain and seashore, the latter often centred on pohutukawa trees in flower. She signed her art work K Airini Vane. Kathleen Airini Vane (ne...
Agatha Mary MacNeill (1880 - 1980)
Agatha Dobbie was a Guildhall School of Music student. At the beginning of August 1914 she was on holiday in the Bay of Biscay with her sister Beatrice and some friends. They may have been the first Ne...
Beatrice Charlotte Vernon (1887 - 1944)
"Beatrix Dobie", "Beatrix Dobbie", "Beatrix Vernon"
Often misspelt Beatrix Dobie or Beatrix Vernon - biography by Debbie McCauley. Beatrice Charlotte Vernon (nee Dobbie) was born in 1887 (reg. 1887/19475) to Herbert Boucher and Charlotte Anderson Dobbie...