Piripi Patiki

Piripi Kingi Karawai Patiki (1813–4 October 1881) was a teacher and missionary, who was blind. Of Māori descent, he was a rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe). He was born near Titoki in the Mangakahia Valley, Northland, New Zealand. Sir William Martin, the first chief justice of New Zealand, said of Piripi Patiki that he resembled the well-known bust of Socrates. In 1834 he went to live with James Kemp and Thomas Chapman at the Kerikeri Mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He was baptised on 20 January 1839 by the Rev. William Williams at the Kaitaia Mission of the CMS.

Piripi Patiki

Piripi Kingi Karawai Patiki (1813–4 October 1881) was a teacher and missionary, who was blind. Of Māori descent, he was a rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe). He was born near Titoki in the Mangakahia Valley, Northland, New Zealand. Sir William Martin, the first chief justice of New Zealand, said of Piripi Patiki that he resembled the well-known bust of Socrates. In 1834 he went to live with James Kemp and Thomas Chapman at the Kerikeri Mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He was baptised on 20 January 1839 by the Rev. William Williams at the Kaitaia Mission of the CMS.