John Palmer (Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia)
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.
References[edit]
- ^ Auckland Museum
- ^ Blain, Michael (2019). Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (PDF) – via Project Canterbury. p1179
- ^ "Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p1028: London; Horace Cox; 1898
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