– 29 January 1851) was a chief of Ngāti Mutunga, a Māori iwi originally of Taranaki, then of the Wellington region, then the Chatham Islands, in New Zealand.
Pōmare was among the Ngāti Mutunga who migrated to Waikanae in about 1824, along with other Taranaki people, including Ngātata.
[1] Pōmare married Tawhiti, a niece of Te Rauparaha of Ngāti Toa, and they had three children.
[1] Pōmare's brother Te Waka-tīwai was killed in the battle between the Taranaki people and Ngāti Raukawa at Haowhenua near Ōtaki in 1834.
He returned to Wellington in 1842 and was baptised by Octavius Hadfield at Waikanae on 7 April 1844,[3] taking the Christian name Wiremu (Wi) Piti (a transliteration of William Pitt).