Lucy Takiora Lord [SEP] country of citizenship
Lucy Takiora Lord
Lucy Takiora Lord (c.1842 – 3 September 1893) was a New Zealand guide and interpreter. She was born in Russell, Northland, New Zealand. She was the daughter of the maori Kotiro Hinerangi and the English shop owner William Lord and known for her service and interpreter for the British, first during the war of the 1860s, and then during the land purchases of maori land.
— studied piano with Lucy H. Clinton, pupil of Clara Schumann at Hellmuth Ladies' College, London, Ontario
- 1873 — awarded Lord Dufferin Bronze Medal for Art
- 5th Jan 1874 — began teaching piano, Hellmuth Ladies' College
- Sep 1876 — arrived in New York, became a protégé of Miss Lucy Nelson
- 1878 — met Antonia Henne, contralto, "The most dominating musical influence of my life"
- 1879-1906 — organist and choir director, Calvary Baptist Church in New York