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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
The Rev. Robert James Porter
The Rev. Robert James Porter , Minister in charge of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Oamaru, was born in County Down in the north of Ireland, in 1856. He was educated at Belfast and Londonderry, and studied theology at the Assembly Hall, Belfast, and at Magee College, Derry, and was ordained in Ireland early in 1882, when he was set apart for work in the Colonies. Mr. Porter arrived in Wellington, in 1882, and was appointed to supply at St. Andrew's Church, Christchurch, for three month. He was subsequently for three years and three months in the Prebbleton and Lincoln charge, Canterbury, and afterwards at Mornington, Dunedin, till July, 1898, when he was inducted to the charge of St. Paul's Church, Oamaru. Mr. Porter was married in 1882, in Ireland, to a daughter of Mr. R. Beatty, of Lurgan, and has one daughter.
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Rev. R. J. Porter.