GIFFORD, ALGERNON (1825-1909) was born in London, the son of Edward Gifford, architect. Educated at St John's College, London, he was ordained and went to Newfoundland in 1848. From there he moved to Forteau, Labrador, where he was missionary for a district 100 miles long on each side of the Strait of Belle Isle. After seven years there he returned to Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. In 1862 he came to New Zealand in the Zealandia and was appointed vicar of Oamaru, where he held his first services in a woolshed. Gifford retired in 1900, and died on 5 Jul 1909. He married (1851) Sarah Anne (d. 1913), daughter of William Evans, of Limerick, Ireland.

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Reference: Volume 1, page 163

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