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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Gill, Stephen Romney Maurice
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Description area
Dates of existence
1886-1954
History
Archdeacon Gill, from a family of Pacific missionaries, joined the Anglican mission to Papua in 1908. Ordained at Dogura in 1910, and his first parish was at Boianai, where he remained until 1922. He moved to the Mamba district, where he established a temporary station at Manau on the mouth of the Mamba (or Mambare) River. Two years later he began work on Duvira (Maimba) Mission, which became his head station for 18 years. Duvira was destroyed by the Japanese in 1942. In 1943, he began building a new mission station at nearby Dewade. Retired in 1952, Gill died in England in 1954.