Joseph Waterhouse (minister)

Joseph Waterhouse (minister)

Joseph Waterhouse (February 1828 - 29 April 1881) was a English-born Australian Methodist minister and missionary in Fiji. He is credited with having converted, to Christianity, Cakobau, chief of Bau and King of Fiji. [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060535b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography: Waterhouse, Joseph (1828 - 1881)] Retrieved 9.10.2007]

Early life

Waterhouse was the ninth born child of the Methodist minister John Waterhouse and was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. He attended Kingswood School, Bath from 1832 until 1836. The Waterhouse family migrated to Australia in 1839 when John Waterhouse became general superintendent of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission in Australia and Joseph attended St Andrew's Presbyterian school, Hobart. Waterhouse married Elizabeth, née Watson, on 26 March 1850.

Church career

He joined the Methodist society at 14 and in 1849 joined the ministry as a missionary to Fiji where he served until 1857. After two years in Australia he returned to Fiji in 1859 as chairman of the district and while touring the islands campaigned against cession to Britain. After a period of ill health, Waterhouse left Fiji in 1864 and worked in Tasmania and Victoria. Following the annexation of Fiji to Britain, Waterhouse returned to the islands and led the Training Institution until 1878 when he returned to Australia. Waterhouse was drowned when the Tararua was wrecked off the coast of Dunedin and was survived by his wife and ten children.

Legacy

Waterhouse was a supporter of local teachers in Fiji and is said to have converted Cakobau, who as chief of Bau became King of Fiji when he formed the island state.

Publication

* Vah-tah-ah - The Feejeean Princess (Lond,1857)
* The Native Minister (Lond, 1858)
* The King and People of Fiji (Lond, 1866)
* The Ocean Child - Memoir of Mrs Anna M. Rooney (Lond, 1868)

References


* J. Colwell (ed), A Century in the Pacific (Syd, 1914)
* S. Dunn, The Missionary of Australasia and Polynesia (Lond, 1842)
* G. J. Waterhouse (ed), A Brief Account of the Life and Activities of Rev. John Waterhouse (Syd, 1937)

ee also

* Jabez Waterhouse - Brother
* Samuel Waterhouse - Brother
* John Waterhouse - Nephew


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