Reverend Lorimer Fison papers, ca. 1880s-ca. 1907

DLMS 106
DLMS 107

fonds

ca. 1880s-ca. 1907

944724

Microfilm : CY 2208, frames 1-88; 89-163

1 volume of textual material (217 p.) - 27 cm. - manuscript

Lorimer Fison was born in Suffolk, England on 9 November 1832. After being educated at Sheffield, Cambridge and Melbourne, he was ordained and served with the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Fiji from 1863-1884. He was Principal of the Training Institution for Natives at Navuloa for much of that period. Later he became president of the Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also an anthropologist. He died in December 1907.

DLMS 106
1. Manuscript by Lorimer Fison entitled 'Old Fiji' containing notes on Fijian history and customs with descriptive anecdotes. No date.

DLMS 107
2. Manuscripts in unidentified handwriting, being biographical essays about South Seas missionary martyrs.

a. 'Massacre of the Reverend Thomas Baker and party on Sunday 21st Juyly 1867 at Gaga dela Vatu Na Vosa, Viti Levu, Fiji'. After 1867
i. Incomplete account in one handwriting.
ii. Complete account in two other hands, apparently the version of a planter and store owner who lived at the Rewa River mouth at the time of the massacre.

b. 'John Coleridge Patteson'. After 1871.

c. 'Reverend John Williams'. After 1889.

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.