Edward Baxter Riley
| Rev. Edward Baxter Riley | |||||||||
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| Born | 1868 | ||||||||
| Died | 1929 | ||||||||
| Residence | Daru, Papua via Thursday Island | ||||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||||
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1924.11.18 proposed by S.H. Ray, seconded by C.G. Seligman
death noted in the Report of the Council for 1929
Notes From Elsewhere
Born in Lancaster, Riley (1868–1929) originally trained as a pharmacist. He was placed in charge of the LMS’s
Fly River Mission on Daru Island in 1901, after James Chalmers was killed by men from Goarbari Island while
trying to expand the Mission’s territory. Riley became an expert on Papuan languages.
We know that E. Baxter Riley was responsible for transporting at least two examples of Papuan over-modelled skulls to British museums during his time as a missionary.
Amateur philologist with whom Ray corresponded for over twenty years... Riley was appointed to the Fly River area in 1902 and, with Ray's help, 'began work on translating portions of St Mark's Gospel in 1908, and the whole Gospel appeared in print in 1911. In 1917, this was revised, and St Matthew added, and in 1927, a volume containing the Four Gospels was printed [from Cambridge and the Torres Strait: centenary essays]
The Rev. E. Baxter Riley would be glad of the gift of a second-hand Empire typewriter, also fifty copies of the "Congregational Hymnary," and Scripture lantern slides.
Publications
External Publications
Among Papuan headhunters: An account of the manners of customs of the old Fly River headhunters, with a description of the secrets of the initiation ceremonies divulged by those who have passed through all the different orders of the craft, by one who has spent many years in their midst, 1925
The Kiwai reader, 1929
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