Charles Elliot Fox

Charles Elliot Fox (1878–1974) was a Anglican missionary and teacher in Melanesia.

Fox was born in Stalbridge, Dorset, England, and educated in New Zealand, graduating from University of New Zealand. He received a degree in theology from St John's College, Auckland in 1902, joined the Anglican Melanesian Mission in 1903 and was ordained the same year.^[1]

Around 1924, Fox worked on a dictionary and grammar of the Arosi language of Makira (formerly San Cristobal) in the Solomon Island (ISBN 0858831708), and the Lau language of Malaita (ISBN 0858831015).^[1] He also wrote "Beliefs and Tales of San Cristobal" in 1915, later translated and printed in J Royal Anthropological Inst.^[2]

In 1932, Charles Elliot Fox declined the post of Bishop of the Melanesian Missionary Church. In the same year he was admitted to the Melanesian Brotherhood.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "The Register of Charles Elliot Fox Papers 1924". Mandeville Special Collections Library Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego. http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0018a.html. Retrieved 2007-03-15. 
2. ^ "Series SISC - Solomon Islands - San Cristoval Island". Archive at PARADISEC. http://paradisec.org.au/fieldnotes/SISC.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-15. 
3. ^ "History of the Melanesian Brotherhood". Melanesian Brotherhood. http://www.orders.anglican.org/mbh/history.htm#fox. Retrieved 2007-03-15. 

Bibliography

• Kakamora (London, 1962)

External links

• Documents by Fox from Project Canterbury

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Name	Fox, Charles Elliot
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Date of birth	1878
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Date of death	1974
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