William Ellis
1794–1872
Missionary. Joined the London Missionary Society in 1814. Ordained as an independent (Congregational) minister, 1815. Went to the Society Islands (French Polynesia) in 1816. Became a skilled linguist and wrote on Polynesian life and natural history. In the Hawaiian Islands, 1822–5. In Madagascar from 1852.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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