Mission Training Institution, Navuola
Biographical notes:
Lorimer Fison (1832-1907) was born on 9 November 1832. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1855, but departed that year for Australia. He was ordained a Wesleyan minister in 1863, and worked as a missionary in Fiji, 1863-1871, during which time he studied native kinship. Fison carried out anthropological research in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, 1871-1875, and in Fiji, 1875-1884. He lived in Melbourne from 1888 to 1905, and died at Essenden, Victoria, on 29 December 1907.
From the guide to the Fijian Students' Examination Papers, 1879-1882, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
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