Thomas Samuel Grace
Thomas Samuel Grace (16 February 1815 – 30 April 1879) was a New Zealand missionary. He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 16 February 1815.[1][2]
He was a member of the Church Missionary Society and was stationed at Taupo from 1850.[3][4] In 1865 the Pai Mārire ransacked his house.[5] Rev Grace, who had fled from Taupo to Opotiki, was caught up in the Völkner Incident. He was arrested and put on trial by the Pai Mārire party. He was rescued from captivity two weeks later by a British man-of-war, HMS Eclipse, after an attempt by the Pai Mārire to exchange him for Tauranga chief Hori Tupaea, who was in prison.[5][6] In the 1870s he rebuilt the mission station at Taupo.[7]
His son Lawrence Marshall Grace was Member of Parliament for Tauranga in the 1880s.
References
- ↑ Murray, Janet E. "Thomas Samuel Grace". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific" (PDF). 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ↑ "The Church Missionary Gleaner, January 1851". The Aged Chief of Taupo. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 18 October 2015. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "The Church Missionary Gleaner, May 1874". The Church Missionary House at Pukawa. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 24 October 2015. (subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 "The Church Missionary Gleaner, September 1865". Death of the Rev. C. S Volkner. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 24 October 2015. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ S. Barton Babbage, "Hauhauism: An Episode in the Maori Wars 1863-1866", chapter 1. A.H & A.W. Reed, Dunedin, 1937
- ↑ "The Church Missionary Gleaner, February 1877". The Rev. T. S. Grace of New Zealand. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 24 October 2015. (subscription required (help)).