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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Eastman, George Herbert
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Description area
Dates of existence
1881-1974
History
George Herbert Eastman ran the London Missionary Society (LMS) Mission in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 1913-1918. Between 1918 and 1947, he ran the LMS Gilbert Islands [Kiribati] Mission, based at Rongorongo on Beru island. In 1949, Eastman and his wife Winifred (nee Grimwade, married 1914) retired to Swanage in Dorset, England.