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| Administrative History | Joseph Phelps Gardiner, D. D., missionary and clergyman, was born in Gloucestershire in 1828. He first departed England as a CMS missionary, 19 June 1857, heading for York [Factory], part of the CMS ‘North-West America Mission’ [in what is now Canada].
In 1858, he was ordained by the Bishop of Rupert’s Land, as deacon (1 August) and as priest (8 August). He moved to [Fort] Churchill in 1862. After returning to England 19 September 1863-30 June 1865, he was based at St Andrew’s, Red River. He set sail for England for the second and final time, 19 September 1872 and retired as a CMS missionary in February, 1873. He continued his link with CMS, being appointed Association Secretary for Lancashire 10 March 1873. In 1875, he was appointed Vicar of Bishop Ryder’s Church, Birmingham. In 1879, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He died 7 July 1913.
Rev Dr Gardiner was survived by his wife, Jane, nee Watson, who died 30 November 1917.
Source: annotated ‘Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904’, Church Missionary Society, 1905.
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