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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

The Rev. James Wilson

The Rev. James Wilson , who has been in charge of the Queenstown parish since 1902, was born in 1865, page 1024 in Fifeshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Fifeshire public schools, at. St. Andrew's University, Edinburgh University, and the United Presbyterian Theological College. Mr Wilson was licensed to preach in 1894, and was assistant at Dunfermline, and at Bellshill, Lanarkshire. He afterwards had a church extension charge
Rev. J. Wilson.

Rev. J. Wilson.

in Northumberland for three years. Mr Wilson arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, in the s.s. “Rimutaka,” in 1901. After being six months at Reefton, he was called to Queenstown in June, 1902, and was inducted in the following January. Mr Wilson was married in February, 1903, to a daughter of Mr Sim, of Wellington, and has one son.