STOCK, ARTHUR (1823-1901) was born in Bow parish, Mile End Road, London, and educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (1845). He became a master at the Bath Grammar School and was ordained deacon (1847) and priest (1848). After ministering at Prescott, Cloudesley Square, London, and Clapham Road, he offered his services to the Church Missionary Society and came to New Zealand in the Hamilla Mitchell (1854). He was appointed to have charge of the Maori school at Otaki, and spent nine months also at Wanganui. In 1856 he was appointed vicar of St Peter's, Wellington, where he remained until his retirement (1888). In 1872 he was appointed archdeacon. Stock was of low church tendencies and was a keen astronomer. It was mainly due to his intervention in the Tricker case that Tricker was finally acquitted of the murder. Stock died on 23 Sep 1901.

J.G. Wilson; Cycl. N.Z., i (p); Evening Post, 23 Sep 1901.

Reference: Volume 2, page 171

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