CHRISTIAN, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1867-1934) was born in London and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1890. He was engaged for some years in journalism and literary work and travelled widely in the Pacific and published: The Caroline Islands (1899), Eastern Pacific Lands (1910), Vocabulary of the Archaic Dialect of Mangaia and other works in Polynesian philology. He was schoolmaster at Mangaia (1918-20) and public librarian at Palmerston North from 1923 till his death in 1934. He married (1911) Ethel Lilian, daughter of W. G. Mares (Romsey, Hampshire).

Who's Who N.Z., 1932.

Reference: Volume 1, page 95

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