W.H. Oliver

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New Zealand historian and poet, born in what is now known as Feilding, 14 May 1925, the son of Cornish immigrants. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington (MA) and completed a PhD at Oxford University in 1953. He returned to New Zealand and lectured at University of Canterbury and Victoria, before becoming innaugural professor of history at Massey University in 1965. He was made emeritus professor on leaving Massey in 1984 to become general editor of the [Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]. He has written extensively on New Zealand history and published several volumes of poetry. His collected poetic works are available at [The Phoenix Project].

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