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See also:ELLIS, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1794 – 1872) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist missionary, was See also:born in See also:London on the 29th of See also:August 1794. His boyhood and youth were spent at Wisbeach, where he worked as a See also:market-gardener. In 1814 he offered himself to the London Missionary Society, and was accepted. During a See also:year's training he acquired some knowledge of See also:theology and of various See also:practical arts, such as See also:printing and See also:bookbinding. He sailed for the See also:South See also:Sea Islands in See also:January 1816, and remained in See also:Polynesia, occupying various stations in See also:succession, until 1824, when he was compelled to return See also:home on See also:account of the See also:state of his wife's See also:health. Though the See also:period of his See also:residence in the islands was thus comparatively See also:short, his labours were very fruitful, contributing perhaps as much as those of any other missionary to bring about the extraordinary improvement in the religious, moral and social See also:condition of the Pacific See also:Archipelago that took See also:place during the 19th See also:century. Besides promoting the spiritual See also:object of his See also:mission, he introduced many other See also:aids to the improvement of the condition of the See also:people. His gardening experience enabled him successfully to acclimatize many See also:species of tropical fruits and See also:plants, and he set up and worked the first printing See also:press in the South Seas. Returning home by way of the See also:United States, where he advocated his See also:work, Ellis was for some years employed as a travelling See also:agent of the London Missionary Society, and in 1832 was appointed See also:foreign secretary to the society, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he held for seven years. In 1837 he married his second wife, Sarah Stickney, a writer and teacher of some See also:note in her See also:generation. In 1841 he went to live at See also:Hoddesdon, Herts, and ministered to a small Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church there. On behalf of the London Missionary Society he paid three visits to See also:Madagascar (1853–1857), inquiring into the prospects for resuming the work that had been suspended by See also:Queen Ranavolona's hostility. A further visit was paid in 1863. Ellis wrote accounts of all his travels, and See also:Southey's praise (in the Quarterly See also:Review) of his Polynesian Researches (2 vols., 1829) finds many echoes.
He was a fearless, upright and tactful See also:man, and a keen observer of nature. He died on the 25th of See also:June 1872.
End of Article: ELLIS, WILLIAM (1794 – 1872)
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William Ellis is buried in a low chest tomb with elegant natural carving, at Abney House corner, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London.
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