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Erwin, John
Full NameERWIN, Rev John B.A.
Date of Birth23 November 1866Date of Death3 March 1917 Biography
A graduate of Queen's University of Ireland.
Licensed by the Belfast Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland July 1894
Ordained by Belfast Presbytery of Presbyterian Church of Ireland March 1899
Came to New Zealand as Probationer, arrived March 1899.
Returned to Ireland for a twelve-month visit in order to regain his health in his native land. His wife and four children remained in New Zealand. The war and increasingly ill health made his return to New Zealand impossible nor could his family safely join him. He was cared for in his last illness by his sisters.
"A man of ripe culture and fine scholarship and always gave of his best to the congregations to which he ministered.... A man of such marked individuality as Mr Erwin could not but hold his convictions very strongly. He was always fearless in the expression of them, whether they were popular or the reverse. But he was never other than a high-minded, chivalrous, Christian gentleman, more exacting in his demands upon himself than in what he expected of others."
Date of Birth23 November 1866Date of Death3 March 1917 Biography- born 23 November 1866 Belfast, Ireland.
- brother of the Rev R. ERWIN
- married 5 September 1901 (Wanganui) Annie Robertson JARDINE, born 1878 Scotland died 4 December 1947 (Dunedin)
- Annie interred in Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin with her daughter who pre-deceased her.
- children Desmond Yule ERWIN 1903-1961, Jardine Mayrs ERWIN 1905-1974, Grahame Stoddart ERWIN 1907, Guinevere Joan Mary ERWIN 1914-1945
- Annie interred in Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin with her daughter who pre-deceased her.
- died 3 March 1917 at Belfast. Interred in Clifton Street Burying Ground, Belfast. Northern Ireland.
A graduate of Queen's University of Ireland.
Licensed by the Belfast Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland July 1894
Ordained by Belfast Presbytery of Presbyterian Church of Ireland March 1899
Came to New Zealand as Probationer, arrived March 1899.
- Trinity, Cambridge, Waikato 20 December 1899
- North East Harbour and Portobello, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin 20 October 1904
— he felt the need to go to a smaller and less demanding parish.
- Limestone Plains, Southland 14 March 1912 — resigned 30 April 1915
Returned to Ireland for a twelve-month visit in order to regain his health in his native land. His wife and four children remained in New Zealand. The war and increasingly ill health made his return to New Zealand impossible nor could his family safely join him. He was cared for in his last illness by his sisters.
"A man of ripe culture and fine scholarship and always gave of his best to the congregations to which he ministered.... A man of such marked individuality as Mr Erwin could not but hold his convictions very strongly. He was always fearless in the expression of them, whether they were popular or the reverse. But he was never other than a high-minded, chivalrous, Christian gentleman, more exacting in his demands upon himself than in what he expected of others."
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