the following list of names is of those New Zealanders who have biographies (and photos) on the
DICTIONARY of New Zealand BIOGRAPHY as at June 2011


S names SALAMAN - SLADDEN

S names SLATTERY - SYME

Slattery, Edmond
1839/1840?–1927
Swagger, rural labourer

Small, Joe
1830/1831?–?
Goldminer, entertainer, songwriter

Small, Mary Elizabeth
1812/1813?–1908
Market gardener, farmer

Smart, Maxwell James Grant
1896–1972
Farmer, museum director, historian, archaeologist, writer

Smirk, Frederick Horace
1902–1991
Professor of medicine

Smith, David Stanley
1888–1982
Lawyer, judge, educationalist

Smith, Edward Metcalf
1839–1907
Armourer, ironsands entrepreneur, politician

Smith, Elsie
1881–1968
Nurse, Anglican deaconess and missionary

Smith, Frances Hagell
1877–1948
Missionary teacher, welfare worker

Smith, George Marshall McCall
1882–1958
Doctor, medical superintendent, community leader

Smith, George William
1874–1954
Jockey, rugby player, athlete, factory worker

Smith, Helen Hay
1873–1918
Clothing manufacturer and retailer, businesswoman

Smith, John Burns
1922–1974
Nga Puhi; baker, rugby player, soldier, sportsman

Smith, Lillian Rita
1912–1993
Communist, political activist

Smith, Lucy Masey
1861–1936
Editor, feminist, temperance and welfare worker

Smith, Marianne
1851–1938
Businesswoman, community worker, philanthropist

Smith, Ronald Joseph
1921–1995
Public servant, communist, peace activist

Smith, Stephenson Percy
1840–1922
Surveyor, public servant, ethnologist, writer

Smith, William Mein
1799–1869
Surveyor, artist, runholder

Smith, William Walter
1852–1942
Gardener, naturalist, conservationist

Smithells, Philip Ashton
1910–1977
Physical educationalist, university professor

Smithyman, William Kendrick
1922–1995
Poet, teacher, literary critic, university tutor

Smyth, Annie
1878–1942
Salvation Army officer, missionary

Smyth, Charles Gordon
1883–1927
Policeman, trade unionist, baker

Smyth, Patrick
1893–1954
Nga Puhi; teacher, principal, educationalist

Snelson, George Mathew
1837–1901
Ironmonger, storekeeper, community leader

Snelson, Louisa Matilda
1844–1919
Community leader

Snow, Sarah Ellen Oliver
1864–1939
Political activist, feminist, welfare worker

Soljak, Miriam Bridelia
1879–1971
Teacher, political activist, feminist, journalist

Solomon, Harata Ria Te Uira
1925–1993
Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa woman of mana; teacher, entertainer, community leader, Mormon leader

Solomon, Tommy
1884–1933
Moriori leader, farmer

Somerset, Gwendolen Lucy
1894–1988
Teacher, adult education director, educationalist, writer

Somerset, Hugh Crawford Dixon
1895–1968
Teacher, adult education director, university professor, writer

Soper, Eileen Louise
1900–1989
Journalist, writer, Girl Guide commissioner

Southwell, Charles
1814–1860
Freethinker, lecturer, newspaper owner and editor, actor

Spain, William
1803–1876
Land claims commissioner

Sparrow, Arthur George William
1896–1967
Commercial artist, photographer, businessman

Speight, Charles
1865–1928
Brewer, businessman

Speight, Robert
1867–1949
Geologist, university professor, museum curator

Spencer, Anna Elizabeth Jerome
1872–1955
School principal, orchardist, community leader

Spencer-Smith, Joan Elizabeth
1891–1965
Anglican deaconess, lecturer

Sperrey, Eleanor Catherine
1862–1893
Artist

Spragg, Wesley
1848–1930
Butter manufacturer and exporter, temperance campaigner, benefactor

Sprott, Thomas Henry
1856–1942
Anglican bishop

Spurdle, Flora Park Cave
1883–1973
Journalist, museum worker, local historian

Squarise, Raffaello
1856–1945
Violinist, composer, music teacher, conductor

Squires, Catharine
1843–1912
Church leader

St Quentin, John Calcott
fl. 1863–1869
Painter, designer, workers’ advocate

Stace, Aileen Mary
1895–1977
Craftswoman, spinner and spinning teacher

Stace, Helen McRae
1850–1926
Homemaker, school matron

Stack, James West
1835–1919
Missionary, clergyman, writer, interpreter

Stafford, Edward William
1819–1901
Runholder, provincial superintendent, premier, sportsman

Stanich, Christopher Vincent
1902–1987
Master mariner, harbourmaster, waterfront controller

Stapp, Frank Howard Nelson
1908–1993
Railway worker, concert impresario

Stark, Freda Beatrice
1910–1999
Clerical worker, dancer

Statham, Charles Ernest
1875–1946
Lawyer, politician, parliamentary Speaker

Statham, Edith Mary
1853–1951
Singer, nurse, secretary, war graves conservator, community worker

Staveren, Herman van
1849–1930
Rabbi, philanthropist

Stead, Edgar Fraser
1881–1949
Engineer, horticulturist, ornithologist, marksman

Stead, George Gatonby
1841–1908
Grain merchant, racehorse owner and breeder, businessman

Steele, Louis John
1842–1918
Artist, engraver

Stephens, Oswold Counsell
1896–1980
Teacher, chemist, potter

Stephenson, George
1874–1918
Auctioneer, rugby player, theatrical company manager and entrepreneur

Stevens, Edward Cephas John
1837–1915
Land agent, businessman, sportsman, politician

Stevens, Emily Jean
1900–1967
Wholesale florist, nurserywoman, iris hybridiser

Stevens, Joan
1908–1990
Teacher, university professor of English

Stevens, Percy Ronald
1893–1963
Mechanic, radio broadcaster

Stevens, William George
1893–1975
Military leader, diplomat

Stevenson, Greta Barbara
1911–1990
Botanist, mycologist, mountaineer, teacher

Stevenson, Jean
1881–1948
Community worker and administrator

Stevenson, Margaret Beveridge
1865–1941
Baha’i

Stewart, Adela Blanche
1846–1910
Homemaker, writer

Stewart, Albert Oliphant
1884–1958
Ngati Awa and Te Whanau-a-Apanui leader, law clerk, interpreter,
local politician, rate collector

Stewart, Catherine Campbell
1881–1957
Welfare worker, political activist, politician

Stewart, Frances Ann
1840–1916
Social activist

Stewart, George
1885–1955
Wool and fur skin exporter, businessman

Stewart, George Vesey
1832?–1920
Farmer, coloniser, local politician

Stewart, Hugh
1884–1934
University professor, classicist, military leader, historian

Stewart, John Tiffin
1827–1913
Civil engineer, surveyor

Stewart, Keith Lindsay
1896–1972
Military leader

Stewart, Marion Watson
1898–1983
Poultry farmer and promoter, community leader

Stewart, Mary Downie
1876–1957
Political hostess, welfare worker

Stewart, William Downie
1878–1949
Lawyer, politician, writer

Stirling, Mihi Kotukutuku
1870–1956
Te Whanau-a-Apanui and Ngati Porou woman of mana

Stirling, Wharetutu Te Aroha
1924–1993
Ngai Tahu woman of mana, conservationist

Stoddart, Margaret Olrog
1865–1934
Artist

Stokell, Gerald
1890–1972
Horticulturist, ichthyologist

Stokes, John Lort
1811?–1885
Naval officer, hydrographer

Stothard, Sarah Sophia
1825/1826?–1901
Teacher, educationalist

Stott, Donald John
1914–1945
Soldier, resistance leader

Stout, Anna Paterson
1858–1931
Feminist, community worker

Stout, Robert
1844–1930
Lawyer, politician, premier, chief justice, university chancellor

Stowell, Henry Matthew
1859–1944
Nga Puhi interpreter, genealogist

Strachan, James Ernest
1883–1973
School principal

Strode, Alfred Rowland Chetham
1823–1890
Police officer, magistrate, goldfields commissioner, runholder

Strong, Ann Monroe Gilchrist
1875–1957
University professor of home science

Strouts, Frederick
1834–1919
Architect

Stuart, Bathia Howie
1893–1987
Actor, singer, journalist, lecturer, film-maker, tourism promoter

Stuart, Donald McNaughton
1819?–1894
Presbyterian minister, educationalist

Stuart, Wilhelmina Magdalene
1895–1985
Telegraphist

Sturm, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian
1810/1811?–1896
Naturalist, interpreter, nursery owner

Suckling, Sophia Lois
1893–1990
Optician, family planning reformer

Suisted, Laura Jane
1840–1903
Writer, journalist, parliamentary reporter

Sullivan, Daniel Giles
1882–1947
French polisher, trade unionist, journalist, politician

Sullivan, John Lorraine
1915–1990
Rugby player, driver, salesman, rugby coach and administrator, company director

Sullivan, Martin Gloster
1910–1980
Anglican dean, army and student chaplain

Sullivan, William
1891–1967
Builder, politician

Summers, Ethel Snelson
1912–1998
Draper’s assistant, journalist, novelist

Surville, Jean François Marie de
1717–1770
Explorer

Sutch, William Ball
1907–1975
Teacher, economist, writer, diplomat, public servant, social policy analyst

Sutcliffe, Herbert
1886–1971
Psychologist, health advocate and teacher

Suter, Andrew Burn
1830–1895
Anglican bishop

Suter, Henry
1841–1918
Zoologist, palaeontologist

Sutherland, Benjamin
1873–1949
Railway clerk, grocer, businessman, philanthropist

Sutherland, Donald
1843/1844?–1919
Soldier, explorer, accommodation-house keeper

Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George
1897–1952
Ethnologist, university professor

Sutherland, Mary
1893–1955
Forester, botanist

Sutherland, Mary Ann
1864–1948
Farmer, landowner

Sutherland, Olive Rose
1894–1984
Teacher

Sutherland, Selina Murray McDonald
1839–1909
Nurse, social worker

Swainson, Mary Anne
1833?–1897
Headmistress

Swainson, William
1809–1884
Lawyer, attorney general, politician, church chancellor

Swift, Anne
1829-1835?–?
Prostitute

Syme, Roderick
1900–1994
Agricultural instructor, mountaineer, conservationist, alpine sports administrator