Sir Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta was a prominent Maori politician.
12 Facts About Robert Mahuta
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Robert Mahuta was born Robert Jeremiah Ormsby and changed his name by deed poll.
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Robert Mahuta was born Robert Jeremiah Ormsby in Te Kuiti, on 26 April 1939.
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Robert Mahuta's mother was Te Amohia Ormsby, and his maternal grandmother was Piupiu Te Wherowhero, a leader within the kahui ariki.
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Robert Mahuta Ormsby was adopted by King Koroki at four weeks old, and became the brother of Princess Piki, later the Maori Queen, Dame Te Atairangikaahu.
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Robert Mahuta changed his name by deed poll to Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta when he was 24.
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Robert Mahuta married Raiha in 1964 and had one son and two daughters.
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Robert Mahuta's elder daughter, Nanaia, is a Labour MP and his younger daughter is Tipa.
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Robert Mahuta studied at the University of Auckland and the title of his master's thesis was Whaikorero a study of formal Maori speech.
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Robert Mahuta was the director of Maori Studies and Research at the University of Waikato from 1972 to 1977.
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Robert Mahuta served as a Treaty of Waitangi fisheries commissioner, chairman of the Maori Development Corporation and chairman of the Tainui Maori Trust Board.
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Robert Mahuta was a "warrior in the true sense", said former Member of Parliament Sir Douglas Graham.