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- 1867-1960
Charles Edward Miller was an elder of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Charles Edward Miller was an elder of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
With his wife Emma, was a missionary of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
Sir Arthur Grimble, born in Hong Kong in 1888, was a British Colonial Service administrator and writer. After joining the Colonial Office in 1914 he became the first cadet administrative officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From April 1919 he acted as the Resident Commissioner until Herbert Reginald McClure took up this appointment. In 1925, Grimble succeeded McClure as Resident Commissioner. He learned the local language, and recorded oral traditions of the Kiribati people. He remained in the islands until 1933. He published a number of books as well as being a radio broadcaster. Grimble also designed the coat of arms of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and the design remains on the flag of Kiribati.
The Rev. Charles Moore (1892-1960) was born at West Bromwich (near Birmingham), England. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1918 and, after attending a theological college and being ordained, he went to Tonga as a Methodist missionary in 1924. He spent four years in Ha'apai, followed by four years in Vava'u, and returned to Australia in 1932.