Looking for information on the Church Missionary Society? Featured is a list of Church Missionary Society missionaries which was created by Bishop William Simkin in 1965. [ANG 17/3/3}. The list we understand is compiled from a printed register first published by the Church Missionary Society. The work of the CMS… Read More »Finding information on the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand
Researchers are used to the bulk of the early records from the Church Missionary Society only being available on microfilm unless one is willing to travel to Birmingham, England. However, amongst the records of the General Synod are a few volumes that provide copies of correspondence from the London based… Read More »Early Records of the Church Missionary Society
Several of the books in the Rare Books collection have the bookplate of CJ Dyson, including the earliest book held, an incunabule – a work of St Ambrose printed in 1874. Until recently nothing was known about Dyson, but a recently discovered entry in John Henry Newman’s published correspondence 31… Read More »Charles Dyson as a donor of books to St John’s College
The Baumber collection consists of 980 books of mostly pre-1900 New Zealand titles, which were given to Trinity Methodist College as the gift of the Rev. William Baumber, minister at Pitt Street Church. The collection is strong in 19th-century settler and visitor accounts of New Zealand. A noteworthy book from the… Read More »Baumber Collection
