Frederick William Christian

Frederick William Christian BA, FRGS
Born	1867
Died	1934
Residence	60 Clyde Road, Addiscombe, E. Croydon [1900]
Occupation	lexicographer
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1905.12.05 struck off for arrears in subscription elected_AI 1899.11.07 societies Royal Geographical Society Hawaiian Historical Society Polynesian Society of New Zealand

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Office Notes

House Notes

The photo is from the album here - might not be him, there is no information ...
1899.10.17 proposed

Notes From Elsewhere

Frederick William
Traveler, lexicographer of Polynesian languages
He was a Lutheran

Traveller and lexicographer. Wrote books and articles on Oceania. 1901 Census lists a Frederick W. Christian as living in Kensington, with the occupation of ‘Oil and colourman’. His age, however, is given as 37 which gives his birth year as 1864. On OLIS the birth date is given as 1867.

Publications

External Publications

The Caroline Islands; travel in the sea of the little lands, (London, Methuen & Co., 1899)

Christian, F.W. 1910. Eastern Pacific lands: Tahiti and the Marquesas islands. London: Robert Scott.

Christian, F.W., 1899a. The Caroline Islands: Travel in the sea of the little lands. Psychology Press.

Christian, F.W., 1899b. The Caroline Islands. The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 15(4), pp.169-178.

Christian, F. W. 1899c. Exploration in the Caroline islands. The Geographical Journal, 13(2) pp.105-131.

House Publications

Micronesian weapons, dress, etc. 1898
Vol. 28, No. 3/4 (1899), pp. 288-306

Related Material Details

RAI Material

Photo album; MS 161 Ponape notes

Other Material

National Museum of Scotland [objects] collected seeds, much material including slides destroyed; PRM and BM objects from 1899; few notes in Routledge Collection at RGS