Father Y.M. Helliet Sm, active in Fiji 1926-1955.

Father Jean Louis Guinard Sm spent 60 years in Fiji as a priest of the Roman Catholic Mission. He arrived in January 1901 and died in 1961. Forty-two years of his service were spent at Namosi.

Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce was born in Boston. Massachusetts. He was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apia, Samoa, and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva, Fiji.

James Valentine Tarte was born in England and migrated to Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in 1857. He went to Fiji in 1869 and took up land on Taveuni where he remained until his death.

Buffett was a Norfolk Islander employed on whaling voyages in the New Bedford bark CANTON from 1881 to 1885 and in the bark PETREL in 1887. Buffett signed on the CANTON at Norfolk Island and visited many islands in the Pacific.

Isobel Whippy was born at Wiluna, Western Australia, in 1939. After teaching Aboriginal children in the Kimberley area of W.A., and Maori children in northern Aotearoa/New Zealand, she went to Fiji in 1963 and married at Levuka in 1966. She wrote several short plays for school children from 1968 onwards. 'Pritchard', her first major drama, won a $100 prize in a drama contest for the South Pacific Festival of Arts in Suva in May 1972.

A British consul, born in Papeete, Tahiti, to George Pritchard and Eliza Aileen. He was educated in Britain before returning to join his father, the British consul in Samoa. There he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the Polynesian languages and traditions. In 1858, Pritchard was appointed the first British consul at Fiji, and in the same year traveled to England with an offer from Seru Epenisa Cakobau to cede Fiji to the British crown. He was dismissed from his post in 1863.

Reverend John Geddie was a Presbyterian missionary who left Nova Scotia, Canada, for the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) in 1846. He reached Aneityum in May 1848 in the mission ship John Williams. Geddie was accompanied by his wife Charlotte Geddie (nee MacDonald, 1822-) and Thomas Powell of the London Missionary Society. Powell left the island after about a year, and the Geddies remained with Samoan teachers. They were joined by John and Jessie Inglis of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1852. John Geddie retired to Australia in 1872, and died soon afterwards.