Edward Robert Tregear
1846–1931
(Person)
Soldier, surveyor, linguist, Polynesian scholar, writer, public servant, political reformer.
Genealogy
Parents: William James Tregear, Mary Tregear
Spouses: Bessie Tregear
Children: Vera Tregear
Works by this Author in Our Collection
Subject of Texts
Mentioned in
- A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
- A Dictionary of the Maori Language
- An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
- A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
- Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names They Gave
- Early Wellington
- Ethnology of Tokelau Islands
- Hawaiki: The Original Home of the Maori; with a Sketch of Polynesian History
- Henry Lawson Among Maoris
- Introduction to The Maori As He Was
- Introduction to Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review [1887-1897]
- Island Stories
- Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number One
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
- La Nouvelle-Zélande
- Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
- Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
- Introduction: Colonialism and Embarrassment
- 3. Henry Lawson's Aesthetic Crisis
- 4. Smoothing the Pillow of a Dying Race: A. A. Grace
- 5. Katherine Mansfield: A Modernist in Maoriland
- 6. Edith Searle Grossmann: Feminising the Bush
- 7. Blanche Baughan's Spiritual Nationalism
- Conclusion: The Ends of Maoriland
- Index
- Moko; or Maori Tattooing
- New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
- Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930
- The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical
- The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
- The Greenstone Door
- The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
- The Long White Cloud
- The Maori: Yesterday and To-day
- The Maori Race
- The Maoris of the South Island
- The Maori - Volume II
- Typo
Cited in
- A Bibliography of Online Resources for the "Moko; or Maori Tattooing" Project
- A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
- Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names They Gave
- Ethnology of Tokelau Islands
- Henry Lawson Among Maoris
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
- Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930
- The Maori - Volume II
Image Gallery
.jpg "Black and white photograph of Edward Tregear sitting, looking towards the camera")
.jpg "Photo by Wrigglesworth and Binns")
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Edward Robert Tregear":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
