NORTH, ALFRED (1845-1924), who was born in England, was trained at Rawdon Baptist College and ordained in 1869 to the pastorate of Harborne, Birmingham. In 1882 he came to New Zealand as minister of the Hanover Street Baptist Church, Dunedin. In 1900 he took up missionary work at Calcutta, and on his return took charge of the Baptist Church at Ponsonby, and later at Epsom, Auckland (retiring in 1917). North was an outstanding figure in the New Zealand Baptist church, being a founder, twice president (1884, 1886), and an executive member of the New Zealand Baptist Union, and a founder of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society and of the Sunday School Union. He edited the New Zealand Baptist for several years and wrote a number of works on Baptism and its history. He died in Dunedin on 3 Dec 1924.

Evening Post, 4 Dec 1924.

Reference: Volume 2, page 67

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