Hine-i-paketia was a leader of Heretaunga (Hawke’s Bay), and of the district extending south to the Manawatū Gorge, during the nineteenth century. She was publicly consulted by influential chiefs. She did not hesitate to speak at meetings and her name headed petitions to the governor.
Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its longest-serving woman MP, and a staunch advocate in Parliament for Māori interests. An accomplished academic, social worker, designer, sportswoman and dancer, she paved the way for women to combine a political career with motherhood.
She was one of the first three appointments to the New Zealand diplomatic service and was later promoted to the rank of minister, the first New Zealand woman to hold a position of such seniority in the Overseas Service.
Protestant queen of England for nine days
The “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”
Russian diplomatist
Marchioness de Maintenon, second wife of King Louis XIV of France.
American labor leader
Esther Marion Pretoria James was remarkable for the diversity of her achievements, and in the 1930s became a national celebrity during a sponsored walk of the length of New Zealand.
Russian litterateur, and one of the leaders of the party that raised Catherine II to the throne