OBITUARY
THE REV. C. CONNOR
The death is reported at Napier of the Rev. Charles Connor, who was born in Liverpool in 1855, and sailed for New Zealand with his parents in the ship Arina, in November 1862. The Rev. Charles Connor, sen., was minister in Oamaru for six years, and then moved to Clinton, from where his son attended the Otago Boys’ High School. When Otago University was opened in 1871, he was one of its first students Mr Connor returned to Scotland in 1875 to study divinity in, Edinburgh for three years, after which he spent several years in Marburg, Germany, studying theology. He was licensed as a minister in 1879 and for 11 years held ■ a charge in Old Meldrum, in Britain. He married in 1885. On returning to New Zealand he settled in Waikari, North Canterbury, and afterward spent nine years as minister of the Port AhuririMeeanee combined charge. Later he held a brief charge in Kelburn, Wellington, and preached in many churches througriout Hawke’s Bay,
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Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 6
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170OBITUARY Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 6
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