John Palmer (Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia)

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John Palmer was a priest who worked as a missionary for the Anglican Church in Melanesia. [1]

Palmer was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire and baptised on 19 November 1837. [2] He was educated at St John's College, Auckland and ordained in 1867. He was a missionary on Norfolk Island from 1863, head of the Melanesian Mission from 1892, and Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia from 1894. [3] He died in 1902.

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References

  1. Auckland Museum
  2. Blain, Michael (2019). Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (PDF) via Project Canterbury.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) p1179
  3. "Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p1028: London; Horace Cox; 1898