OBITUARY
CANON A. F. WILLIAMS The death has occurred at Pukehou, Hawke's Bay, of the Rev. Canon Arthur Frederick Williams, who liad spent the greater part of his life working among the Maoris in the district extending from Woodville to Taupo. Canon Williams, who was born at Waimate, in the Bay of Islands, in IS6O, was the eighth son of the late Mr. E. A. Williams, formerly Judge of the Native Land Court, and a grandson of Archdeacon Henry Williams, who came to New Zealand in 1823. Canon Williams was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell, and at St. John's College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree at Cambridge in 1883 and was ordained the following year. He was a curate at St. Luke's, Wolverhampton, from 1884 to 1886. In the latter year he returned to New Zealand and had been engaged in church and missionary work in the Hawke's Bay district. He was made a honorary canon of the Napier Cathedral in 1919.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 12
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170OBITUARY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 12
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