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Budd, George
Full NameBUDD, Very Rev George
Biography
Brought up at Upper Drybread in a sod hut. Attended Sunday School firstly at Matakanui
then after moving, attended both Primary School and Sunday School at Thomson’s Creek Valley.
In early youth worked a gold sluicing claim; at nineteen he worked in a Grocers shop in Dunedin.
In 1895 he became a Colporteur for the Bible, Tract and Book Society;
Licensed by Clutha Presbytery 5 November 1902
Retired 31 December 1938
Moderator of the General Assembly 1930; interested in YMCA; Convener of the Maori
Missions Committee 1909-1914 and 1919; Convener Life and Work Committee 1916-1919; Clerk
of Auckland Presbytery from 1 June 1939
Biography- born 21 June 1872 Clyde, Central Otago
- son of Henry BUDD and Rachel Ann HINCHCLIFFE
- married 20 November 1902 Isabella Ritchie Stevenson, born 10 July 1873, died 6 July 1966
- children Janet Milburn BUDD 1906-1979, Bessie Stevenson BUDD (GC Medland) 1908-1993, Arthur Fraser BUDD (Zella C Roseveare) 1911-1970
- brother-in-law of R. Stewart, A. Stevenson; Uncle of J.A. Thomson.
- children Janet Milburn BUDD 1906-1979, Bessie Stevenson BUDD (GC Medland) 1908-1993, Arthur Fraser BUDD (Zella C Roseveare) 1911-1970
- died 31 October 1952
Brought up at Upper Drybread in a sod hut. Attended Sunday School firstly at Matakanui
then after moving, attended both Primary School and Sunday School at Thomson’s Creek Valley.
In early youth worked a gold sluicing claim; at nineteen he worked in a Grocers shop in Dunedin.
In 1895 he became a Colporteur for the Bible, Tract and Book Society;
- Student Preacher at Ross, West Coast 1896-1897
- Cheviot 1899 (summer supply)
- Reefton 1900-1901
Licensed by Clutha Presbytery 5 November 1902
- Ordained Milburn, Clutha 13 December 1902 [one record gives date as 23 December 1902]
- Feilding, Manawatu 19 July 1905
- Devonport, Auckland 13 September 1915
- Superintendent of Home Missions 31 January 1920
Retired 31 December 1938
Moderator of the General Assembly 1930; interested in YMCA; Convener of the Maori
Missions Committee 1909-1914 and 1919; Convener Life and Work Committee 1916-1919; Clerk
of Auckland Presbytery from 1 June 1939
MLS-6-M-36
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