Record ID:
36553012 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no2001084784
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18410804
  • Ardrishaig (Scotland
Death:
  • 19010408
  • Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea)
  • Goaribari Island (Papua New Guinea)
Associated with:
  • Rarotonga (Cook Islands) Papua New Guinea
Occupations:
  • Missionaries
Used for:
  • Chalmers, J. (James), 1841-1901
  • Tamata, 1841-1901
Notes:
  • Work and adventure in New Guinea, 1902: t.p. (James Chalmers)
  • OCLC, Oct. 22, 2001 (hdg.: Chalmers, James, 1841-1901; usage: James Chalmers; J. Chalmers)
  • Ross, C. Stuart. Tamate, the apostle of the Papuan gulf, 1903
  • Wikipedia 9 October 2020: (James Chalmers (4 August 1841 – 8 April 1901) was a Scottish-born missionary, active in New Guinea. he was born in Ardrishaig, Argyleshire, Scotland. In 1861, he joined the Glasgow City Mission as an evangelist. Eight months later, the London Missionary Society sent him to Cheshunt College near London. he was ordained a minister in 1865. In 1866, having been appointed to Rarotonga, he sailed to Australia, eventually reaching Rarotonga in May 1867. His native name there was Tamate. In 1877 he was moved to New Guinea, where among his missionary work he did much exploring. On a visit to Goaribari Island, he and his companion Oliver Fellows Tomkins were murdered by angry inhabitants.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chalmers_(missionary)
Local system number:
  • 000001561108
  • abv03287942
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX13301
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda NBuU VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc