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JAMES CHALMERS (1841-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:CHALMERS (1841-1901)  , Scottish missionary to New See also:Guinea, was See also:born at Ardrishaig in See also:Argyll . After serving in the See also:Glasgow See also:City See also:Mission he passed through See also:Cheshunt See also:College, and, being accepted by the See also:London Missionary Society, was appointed to Rarotonga in the See also:South Pacific in 1866 . Here the natives gave him the well-known name "Tamate." After ten years' service, especially in training native evangelists, he was transferred to New Guinea . In addition to his enthusiastic but sane missionary See also:work, See also:Chalmers did much to open up the See also:island, and, with his colleague W . G . See also:Lawes, gave valuable aid in the See also:British See also:annexation of the south-See also:east See also:coast of the island . On the 8th of See also:April 19o1, in See also:company with a See also:brother missionary, See also:Oliver Tomkins, he was killed by cannibals at Goaribari Island . R . L . See also:Stevenson has See also:left on See also:record his high appreciation of Chalmers's See also:character and work . Chalmers's AutobiogPaphy and Letters were edited by See also:Richard Lovett in 19oz, who also wrote a popular See also:life called Tamale .

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