John Morgan (missionary)

John Morgan (1806 – 8 June 1865) was a New Zealand missionary. He was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland in about 1806.

Morgan joined the Church Missionary Society and arrived in New Zealand in 1833, and in December of that year he worked with James Preece to establish the Puriri mission station in the Thames area. He moved to the Mangapouri mission station in May 1835, which was located near Te Awamutu on the northern bank of the Puniu River, close to where it joins the Waipa River. On 26 August 1835 he married Maria Mathew Coldham, the sister of Marianne Williams. In about 1842 he established the Otawhao mission station.

In 1846 Morgan helped to construct 3 water mills that were built by the local Māori to mill wheat for sale.

The Letters and Journals of Reverend John Morgan, Missionary at Otawhao, 1833-1865, Published in 2 Volumes. Edited, with an Introduction, by Jan Pilditch, Associate Professor of English and director of the Text and Translation Research Unit at the University Waikato. The Grimsay Press, 2010. [1] [2]

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