James Dredge (minister)

James Dredge (1796–1846) was an English Wesleyan Methodist preacher, Assistant Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip.[1]

Dredge gave up his position as Assistant Protector, which he considered misconceived: secular and possibly set up to fail.[2] He was a preacher at Geelong from 1842 to 1846. He then was in poor health, and undertook a sea voyage to take him back to England. He died on the way.[3]

References
  1. "DREDGE, James (1796-1846)". Web Journals. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  2. O'Brien, Glen; Carey, Hilary M. (2016-03-03). Methodism in Australia: A History. Routledge. p. 201. ISBN 9781317097099. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. Symons, John Christian (1870). Life of the Rev. Daniel James Draper, Representative of the Australasian Conference, who was Lost in the "London," January 11th, 1866: With Historical Notices of Wesleyan Methodism in Australia : Chapters Also on the Aborigines, and Education in Victoria. Wesleyan Book Depot. p. 143. Retrieved 29 December 2017.



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