Harold William Rogers papers, 1952-1988

MLMSS 9073/Boxes 1-5

fonds

1952-1988

148674

0.76 metres of textual material (5 boxes) - manuscript

Harold William Rogers (1922-1988), Anglican clergyman, was born in Campsie, NSW. During the Second World War he served in the Citizens’ Miltary Force in Darwin and later in the AIF as a medical orderly in Papua New Guinea. He was ordained a priest in 1949 and served as curate at St Thomas’, North Sydney, until 1951. He was appointed by the Australian Board of Missions as priest-in-charge at Mukawa, Milne Bay District, Papua New Guinea, 1951-1953. He returned to Sydney where he served at St James’, King Street, 1954-1956, and was befriended by Alice Beatrice Knox (1898-1974) who became his chief benefactor. Rogers renewed his missionary activities when he was appointed parish priest of Miri, Sarawak, Diocese of Borneo, 1956-1960. He was State Secretary of the Australian Board of Missions, 1962-1966, and served as rector of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, 1966-1970. He then settled in Victoria, where he served at St Peter and St Andrew, Braybrook, 1970-1976, and St Paul’s, Chiltern, 1976-1986. He retired to Wangaratta where he died on 22 March 1988

Box 1
Personal diaries, including appointment diaries, 1952-1961, July, 1965-1966?, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970

Box 2
Personal diaries, 1971-1973,1986-1987, plus 2 undated diaries (1968?)

Box 3
Appointment diaries, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971 (x2), 1972 (x2), 1973, 1974 (x2), 1975 (x2), 1976 (x2), 1977, 1978

Box 4
Appointment diaries, 1979, 1981-1985, 1988

Box 5
Letters received from Rogers’ friend and chief benefactor Alice Beatrice Knox, 1967-1972, and undated

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