An engraved, limestone memorial in the floor of Norwich Cathedral reads “Remember Bishop Herbert St Barbe Holland, Dean of Norwich 1946-1952”. His ashes and those of his wife Mellie, are interred here. Bishop Holland is better known to New Zealand Anglicans as the Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand from 1936 to… Read More »Plaque in Norwich Cathedral Commemorates Bishop Holland
This is the Springbok Tour cross that was carried onto the rugby field at Hamilton by protesters against the 1981 Springbok Tour in August-September that year. St John’s College faculty and students had a high profile, and a group from the College travelled to Hamilton for this event. The Springbok… Read More »Were You There? | 1981 Springbok Tour Cross
‘Ladies of the Mission’ photograph This photograph titled ‘Ladies of the Mission’ is understood to have been taken by William Beattie, a Hobart photographer on his visit to the Melanesian Mission headquarters at Norfolk Island in 1906. We are trying to identify the women in the photo. They are all… Read More »Ladies of the Mission
We are keen to know what the occasion is in this photograph, taken at St Stephen’s Chapel, Parnell, probably in the 1960s. Archbishop AH Johnston, Bishop JW Simkin and Bishop AK Warren lead a procession from the church and the two schoolgirls carrying wreaths may be in Diocesan School uniform.… Read More »St Stephen’s Chapel Mystery Event
Cecil Marshall and the Charismatic Movement The John Kinder Theological Library acquired the papers of the Reverend Cecil Marshall, as part of our archive of nationally significant Anglicans. Marshall was one of the early leaders of the Charismatic Movement within the Anglican Church and from 1975 to 1980 was Director… Read More »Cecil Marshall and the Charismatic Movement
In 1870 William Leonard Williams, known as Leonard Williams to Pakeha and as Mita Renata to Māori bought some suburban sections in Gisborne where he built Te Rau Kahikatea, which became his family home from 1877 until 1894. It was also to be the nucleus of Te Rau College for… Read More »Te Rau Kahikatea College Gisborne
These Anglican Priests remain a mystery From the unplumbed depths of the John Kinder Theological Library Archives come these three un-named photographs of Anglican clergy. The first two gentlemen were photographed in or around the 1870’s by the Wellington photographer W.H. Davis. We do not know much about the third… Read More »Mystery Anglican Priests
From a later period of the Melanesian Mission comes three photograph albums from descendants of John Palmer, missionary to Melanesia 1863 to 1902. He was born in Oxfordshire, England, attended St John’s Theological College Auckland, and was ordained in Melanesia. Together the albums have over 100 photographs taken at the… Read More »Photographs of the 19th Century Melanesian Mission
When the Melanesian Mission Museum at Mission Bay was closed, a number of items were deposited with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and stored at some of their properties. Some Melanesian items were recently returned to the John Kinder Theological Library which holds the Melanesian Mission Trust Board Archives.… Read More »Captain Jacob’s Bible – the story behind a Bible inscription
