OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 24575, 25 October 1941, Page 3

OBITUARY

CANON J. DE B. GALWEY The death has occurred in St. George’s Hospital, Christchurch, of the Rev. Canon John de Burgh Galwey, former registrar, treasurer and secretary to the diocese of Christchurch. Canon Galwey, after being diocesan registrar for 14 years, retired from the active list of clergymen in 1934, but since that time he had done much clerical work. He was 74 years of age. Canon Galwey, who before his retirement was chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch and an honorary canon of the Christchurch Cathedral, was appointed diocesan registrar in 1919. He had been more than 40 years in the service of the church, having been ordained deacon in 1893. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in the University of New Zealand in the same year. In 1896, after three years as curate of suburban north Nelson and tutor at Bishopdale Theological College, Nelson, he was ordained priest, and he was vicar of St. Thomas’s, Wellington, in 1896-97. He visited England in the following year, taking up a position as curate of St. George’s, Birmingham. After his return to New Zealand in 1900-01, he was organizing secretary to the New Zealand Church Missionary Association (now the Church Missionary Society). From 1910 to 1913 he was chaplain of the Cathedral mission districts, and at the same time chaplain of the Chatham Islands, a position which he held for eight years, from 1905. In 1913 he went to England again, returning in 1915, when he was appointed vicar of Sumner. He was at Sumner until 1919, and he was then appointed provincial secretary and treasurer. MR T. W. F. BUSBY The death has occurred at Woollahra, Sydney, of Mr T. W. F. Busby, nephew of Mr James Busby, first British resident at the Bay of Islands. A keen student of colonial history, Mr Busby had taken a close personal interest in the compilation of “Busby of Waitangi, the first biography of his uncle now completed by Mr Eric Ramsden. The book will be published next month. Mr Busby was a grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Woore, R.N., of H.M.S. Alligator, who twice visited New Zealand in 1834. On the first visit, Lieutenant Woore participated in the rescue of Mrs John Guard and her children on the Taranaki coast, and during his second visit he was present at the selection of the first Maori national flag by chiefs of the Bay of Islands. Mr Busby is survived by his wife and two daughters, Miss A. D. M. Busby (who represented the Australian branch of his family at the Waitangi celebrations in 1934), and Mrs Heath, wife of Dr Heath, of Sydney. His only son, Lieutenant Frederick Busby, of the Royal Artillery, was killed in the last war.