Charles John Abraham
1814–1903
Clergyman and teacher. Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge, 1837–49. Ordained deacon, 1837; priest, 1838. Master at Eton, 1840–9. Went to New Zealand in 1850. Worked in education and for George Augustus Selwyn, bishop of New Zealand. Became first bishop of Wellington in 1858. Encouraged Maori participation in church government; during the Maori war of 1860, urged fair treatment of the native population. Returned to England in 1870. Took a leading part in founding Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1882.
Sources
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ODNB
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
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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