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DR W. H. FITCHETT. A DISTINGUISHED METHODIST. Melbourne, May 26. The death is announced of the Rev. Dr William Henry Fitchett, the distinguished Methodist historian, for many years Principal of the Methodist College, Hawthorn. He was twice married, and leaves five sons and one daughter.—Australian Press Association. Dr Fitchett was educated at Melbourne University, then entered the Methodist ministry. A practical journalist, he edited the Melbourne Daily Telegraph and the Southern Cross, and being greatly interested in education, founded and became principal of the Methodist Ladies’ College, a position that he held for more than forty years. In 1897 his "Deeds That Won the Empire” attained immediate success. His other works included "How England Saved Europe,” "Fights for the Flag,” “Wellington’s Men,” “Nelson and His Captains,” “Wesley and His Century,” "Ithuriel’s Spear,” “The Tale of the Great Mutiny,” "Beliefs of Unbelief,” “The New World of the South,” and “Australia in the Making.” Dr Fitchett was a younger brother of the very Rev. Dean Fitchett of Dunedin.
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Southland Times, Issue 20497, 28 May 1928, Page 7
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167OBITUARY Southland Times, Issue 20497, 28 May 1928, Page 7
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