Hōhepa Te Umuroa

[1] He is best known as a political prisoner, captured and sentenced with four others who fought alongside Te Rangihaeata.

The men were sent to Darlington Probation Station, on Maria Island off the coast of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

Following his death, the four other Māori men who had been held with him on Maria Island were released and in March 1848 were transported back to Auckland.

[2] The story of Te Umuroa's capture and subsequent transportation and imprisonment in Tasmania for insurrection is told in The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera and the 2012 opera Hōhepa composed by Jenny McLeod.

[3] During Te Umuroa's imprisonment on Tasmania's Maria Island, John Skinner Prout and William Duke painted his portrait.