George Augustus Selwyn was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand from 1841 to 1869. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Metropolitan of New Zealand from 1858 to 1868. Returning to Britain, Selwyn served as Bishop of Lichfield from 1868 to 1878.
Selwyn's Alma Mater, St John's College, Cambridge
Memorial in Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
St John's College and Chapel, Auckland, c1910
Te Waimate Mission
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Te Waimate Mission was the fourth mission station established in New Zealand and the first settlement inland from the Bay of Islands. The members of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) appointed to establish Te (the) Waimate Mission at Waimate North were the Rev. William Yate and lay members Richard Davis, George Clarke and James Hamlin.
George Clarke's house
St. John the Baptist Church today. Some combatants who died at the Battle of Ohaeawai in 1845 are buried in this churchyard.
Wooden headstone for two of the British soldiers killed at Ohaeawai, preserved at the mission