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940483
  • Title
    Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker papers, 1883-1886
  • Creator
  • Call number
    B 699
    B 700
    B 701
    B 702
    B 703
    B 704
    C 193
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1883-1886
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    940483
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : CY 154, frames 34-187 (C 193)
  • Physical Description
    7 volumes of textual material - manuscript - 23 x 34.5 cm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker was a Methodist Missionary at Tonga, but was recalled on account of his interference with politics there. He resigned from the Church and became Premier of Tonga, establishing a rival church which he made the State Church. He was deported from the islands in 1890.
  • Scope and Content
    B 699 - B 704
    Diary and letters of Reverend E. E. Crosby concerning the founding of the Free Church in Tonga by Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker, 1885-1886

    C 193
    Papers concerning the Tongan Methodist Mission affairs and correspondence between R. F. Symonds and Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker, 1883-1884
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Short Catalogue (typed) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
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