When I came on this photo this morning in the ebay shop of L M Bonner (aka Laureswan) I thought, I bet he's a ruddy clergyman ...
I was right. But, even better, he was a clergyman in New Zealand.
Even better, his mortal remains lie in my old home town of Nelson. So I started exploring ... and it eventuated that he was a memorable chap 'the doyen of Weslyan ministers in the Dominion', and I didn't have to research much, because the Nelson press gave him a minutely detailed obituary ... which I hereby reproduce ...
So our photo can be dated 1875.
This one, in Nelson Museum, dates rather later!
All those years of missionarying and producing a host of little Weslyans have taken their toll.
I see a descendant has put a very good tree on ancestry.com. So we know that he was born 19 July 1928. Died 28 May 1912. And all the ten children listed. So I sha'n't do it again.
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