REMUERA HERITAGE - Key Persons
Arthur Ramsay was sent for training to Featherston Camp. He is remembered on the Roll of Honour, St Luke's Church, Remuera.
Charlotte Kate Dalton Dinneen was the second of six children of Michael Dalton and Mary Victoria Dinneen.
Claude Megson (1936-94) was a brilliant, if controversial, architect and teacher, who built five single-family houses and three townhouses in Remuera during the 1960s and 1970s.
Constance Duthie was the founder and first principal of Corran School in Remuera in 1952.
Grace de Courcy of Remuera was amongst the first New Zealand women to qualify as a doctor.
Elsie Cooke was one of 10 children born to Marion Elizabeth (nee Purchas) and Charles Edward Cooke.
Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022: The Queen at Ellerslie Races, Boxing Day 1953
On her first visit to New Zealand in 1953, newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, attended a Boxing Day meeting at Ellerslie racecourse.
Eric Howard Perry was the youngest child of Catherine Anne Perry (Fisher) and the Reverend Edward Ovenden Perry, living at Brighton Road (now Bassett Road), Remuera.
Francis Edward Ryan was 37 years of age when he enlisted on 28 November 1917 as a Private in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.
Gavin Alexander was born on the 14 March 1893 and lived at Clover Nook Rd, Epsom.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Modern Kerikeri
Trevor Alderton was born on 5 January 1894 in Whangarei, Northland, the son of Ida and George Edwin Alderton, the founder of modern Kerikeri.
Gladys Sandford was the first woman in New Zealand to work as a car sales representative and also to attain her pilot's licence.
Gordon Harrison Larner was born on 25 November 1894 to Victor John and Margaret Larner.
Harold Dixon Buddle was born 10 August 1884, the younger son and third child of five children of the Thomas and Emma Buddle of 26 Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland.
Hilda Steele, a nurse in World War One, was included as the only Kiwi nurse in an Australian television programme, ANZAC Girls, in 2014.
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Serviceman and Notable Architect ( Architects of Remuera )
Horace Lovell Massey (1895-1978) was a notable architect who designed distinctive houses in Remuera. He designed many commercial and public buildings as well as residences in Auckland.
Hugh Alexander Forrest was the eldest son of Jessie and William Forrest, who was Postmaster at Devonport Auckland.
Job Titles:
- Elder Son of Captain Thomas Harries and Laura Prosser
James (Jimmy) Dinneen was born 16 July 1883, the fourth of six children of Michael Dalton and Mary Victoria Dinneen (nee Given).
John Owen was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and the Military Medal.
John Robert Burgin was born on 10th October 1869 at Long Bennington, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.
Karl Nilsson Davidson (10/882) was born 9 August 1894 to George A. Davidson and Ida Clotilde Davidson.
Kenneth Ivan Munce was born on 29 April 1884 to Ruth and John McKenny Munce of 162 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland.
Leonard Grimwade obtained the rank of Sergeant in the territorial forces with the 16th Regiment of the College Rifles Rugby Football Club.
Lillian Chrystall was an exceptionally gifted award-winning architect. She was accepted into the University of Auckland (UoA) School of Architecture as one of only five women and designed several houses in Remuera.
Lucy Charlotte Spencer (nee Nutter) and Percy Spencer, lived in Victoria Avenue, Remuera. There were six children, five brothers, three of whom served in the First World War.
Job Titles:
- Businesswoman, Retailer and Co - Founder of Milne and Choyce
Mary Jane Milne - Businesswoman, Retailer and Co-founder of Milne and Choyce
Mary Jane Milne was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 16 September 1840. Her family left Ireland in July 1863 and arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, on 26 November 1863.
Job Titles:
- Author, Artist, Patron and Society Doyen
Kate McCosh Clark was not only an author, artist, patron of the arts and charities, and doyen of society, she was also an early Remuera land developer and owner.
Oliver Steele was born 7 April 1882 in Wairoa, Hawke's Bay where his family farmed at Owhio and Pipanui.
Randolph Edward Oswald Coates was born in Adelaide on 19 May 1888, the elder son of Oswald and Valerie Albine Coates.
Roy Lippincott came to New Zealand as the result of a competition win in 1921. He went on to make a name for himself in designing public buildings and private homes, until returning to the US in 1939. There are a number of Lippincott-designed houses in Remuera.
Roy Keith Binney (1886-1957), architect, designed some of the most notable houses in Remuera and Parnell in the 1920s, including Guisnes Court, Bankton, Awatea, and a grand house for Amy Hellaby.
When Sholto Smith (1881-1936) arrived in Auckland in 1920 at the age of 39, he was already experienced in designing modern office buildings and large houses. In his Auckland practice he designed a number of significant houses in Remuera. Read More
Vernon Akitt Brown was born in Liverpool on 23 March 1905. He studied architecture at Northern Polytechnic in London and emigrated to Auckland in 1927. He became known for his creosoted "Brown" boxes with white trim.
Job Titles:
- Teacher at New Plymouth Boys High School
Walter Riddell Craig (Service number 52385) was born on the 7 October 1880 to Robert Craig and Jenny Craig.
William Brian de Laval Willis was born in Cambridge, New Zealand on 17 May 1888, to Archdeacon William Newcombe de Laval Willis and Mary Agnes (Clarke).
William Dobson Eggleston was born 19 March 1887 in Sunderland, England, the elder son of Mrs Jane Cole Eggleston.