Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero
1. (personal name) (1854/55?-1912) Ngāti Mahuta; leader and third Māori King (1894-1907), he was also a member of the Legislative Council from 1903 to 1910.
Ko te whakaaro nō te tau 1854, 1855 kē rānei, te wā i whānau ai a Mahuta Tāwhiao ki Whatiwhatihoe, takiwā o Waikato (TTR 1996:83). / It is thought that Mahuta Tāwhiao was born in 1854 or 1855 at Whatiwhatihoe a place in Waikato.
