Author · Solomon Islands
Charles Elliot Fox
Died in 1977
Charles Elliot Fox was born in 1878 in Dorset, England, and his family settled in New Zealand in 1884. A graduate of Auckland, he joined the Anglican Melanesian Mission in 1902, which sent him to teach on Norfolk Island, then on Makira, where he lived almost without interruption from 1911 to 1924 and opened the first boarding school in the Solomons. He became a Doctor of Letters in 1922 and joined the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1932. He left the archipelago in 1973 and died in New Zealand in 1977; he is buried at Tabalia.
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- NarrativeThe Threshold of the PacificCharles Elliot Fox · 1924Literature