John Palmer (Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia)

John Palmer was an English priest who worked as a missionary for the Anglican Church in Melanesia.Auckland Museum

Palmer was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England and baptised on 19 November 1837. p1179 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."Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p1028: London; Horace Cox; 1898 He died in 1902 and was buried at O'Neill's Point Cemetery.

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