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4 unusual facts about Ezekiel Blomfield


Ezekiel Blomfield

Rev. Dr. Alexander and Selina MacDonald arrived in Rarotonga in May 1836, then Samoa in April 1837 and settled at Safune on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa in August 1837.

After four years training at Homerton Academy Ezekiel accepted a congregation at Wymondham in Norfolk where he preached and established Sunday schools and missionary societies.

Charles Brightly had established a printing and stereotype foundry in 1795, which in partnership with J. R. Childs, became Brightly & Childs in 1808 and later Messrs. Childs and Son.

Wortwell

Ezekiel Blomfield (1778–1818), a Congregational minister, author and compiler of religious works and works on natural history, was buried 21 July 1818 in the grounds of the Meeting House at Wortwell.



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