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About Arthur Purchas
Arthur Guyon Purchas 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. He was the father of fourteen children and an important figure during British colonisation of New Zealand, described as an 'amazingly versatile colonist'.
Everything about Arthur Purchas →- Occupation
- surgeon, botanist, geologist, Anglican priest
- Born
- September 27, 1821, 1821
- Died
- May 28, 1906