Allen Francis Gardiner
1794–1851
Naval officer and missionary. Entered the navy in 1810; commander, 1826. Founded a missionary station at Port Natal, South Africa, 1834. Worked in Chile among the Araucana (Mapuche) people, 1838–43. Attempted to establish a Patagonian mission in 1844, but returned to England in 1845. A second attempt to establish a mission ended in disaster, when he and his party died of starvation after being stranded on Picton Island in 1851.
Sources
Modern English biography
ODNB
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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.
