an English Congregational missionary, was born in 1771. He left England, May 5, 1800, and arrived at Tahiti, Polynesia, July 10, 1801, when the island was sunken in barbarism and idolatry. On account of the fierce war that broke out in Tahiti in 1808, he was obliged to retire to Huaheine, after remaining there a year, went to Port Jackson, which he reached February 17, 1810; returned to Tahiti in September 1811; but in 1818 again removed to Huaheine, and thence to Papara in 1820, where he labored till his death in 1856. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1857, page 175.