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| first_name = Edward Baxter

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=== Notes From Elsewhere ===

Born in Lancaster, Riley (1868–1929) originally trained as a pharmacist. He was placed in charge of the LMS’s<br />Fly River Mission on Daru Island in 1901, after James Chalmers was killed by men from Goarbari Island while<br />trying to expand the Mission’s territory. Riley became an expert on Papuan languages. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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]<br /><br />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.