The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]
The Rev. William Richard Woolley
The Rev. William Richard Woolley, Minister of the Baptist Church at New Plymouth, was born in Birmingham, England, and in 1878 he became minister of the Baptist Church at Bideford, in Devonshire. After arriving in New Zealand, Mr. Woolley was for sixteen years stationed at the Thames, and removed to New Plymouth in the year 1902.