Clergyman, missionary, surgeon, musician, engineer, inventor, pioneer, geologist and botanist
Relatives
Albert Purchas (brother) Guyon Purchas (nephew)
Arthur Guyon Purchas (27 September 1821 – 28 May 1906) was a clergyman, missionary, surgeon, musician, engineer, inventor, pioneer, geologist and botanist born at St. Arvans in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, who lived most of his life in Auckland, New Zealand.[2][3][4][5][6] He was the father of fourteen children and an important figure during British colonisation of New Zealand, described as an 'amazingly versatile colonist'.[7]
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Liverpool. While studying, Purchas heard about possible missionary work in New Zealand from Bishop George Selwyn. In October 1844, Purchas travelled to New Zealand...
in New Zealand, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. Polymath ArthurPurchas convinced von Hochstetter to stay in New Zealand, where he spent the...
Albert Purchas (1825 – 1909) was a prominent 19th century architect and surveyor in Melbourne, Australia. Albert Purchas was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire...
Purchas Hill (also Te Tauoma) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. Purchas Hill was a twin-cratered scoria cone around 50 metres high...
the extended preface narrative, Coleridge was reading Purchas his Pilgrimes by Samuel Purchas, and fell asleep after reading about Kublai Khan. Then...
confession to Purchas, as they are known to have spoken together. Smith's own writings, however, never mention the confession, leaving Purchas' claim to stand...
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 63–81. ISBN 978-81-208-2465-2. Purchas, Samuel, Purchas his Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, 1625. Early English Books...
politician A. George Pradel (c. 1938), mayor of Naperville, Illinois Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), Welsh-New Zealander clergyman Australian Grand Prix...
del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, a corruption of the original Spanish name "Austrialia...
34–40) in Purchas (1625). Jackson (1978), p. 12. "Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic". Frisia Coast Trail. 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2024-02-22. Purchas (1625)...
in 1859. In 1864 Albert Purchas, who was architect and surveyor for the Melbourne General Cemetery, joined the trust. Purchas is believed to be the designer...
(1615), and Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas (1625). Asha Brahman Absolute (philosophy) Nu (mythology) Wuji (philosophy)...
Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as...
poem Willobie His Avisa (1594), in the travel accounts under the title Purchas His Pilgrimes (1602), Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall (1603) or John Donne's...
Rev. John Purchas—formerly one of his own curates—was of greater national significance because of the controversial ritualist practices Purchas brought...
Ananas comosus, where comosus 'tufted' refers to the stem of the plant. Purchas, writing in English in 1613, referred to the fruit as Ananas, but the Oxford...
schoolboy indiscretion of the future controversial churchman, Rev.John Purchas. And on the other side of the Atlantic there was a stage production of...
destroyed this entire block. Purchas Block – 444–472 Karangahape Road. Designed by Edward Bartley and built in 1884 for Dr Purchas. Expensive English red brick...
Sir Robert Tate (1488); nephew of Sir John Tate (1473). 1497 Sir William Purchas Mercer 1498 Sir John Percival Merchant Taylor 1499 Nicholas Ailwyn Mercer...
Penguin Books India. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-14-310265-6. Purchas, Samuel (1905). Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes. Vol. III. James MacLehose and Sons...
10 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet (died 1660) November 20 (baptized) – Samuel Purchas, English travel writer (died 1626) unknown dates Richard Sibbes, English...
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