Marks/Inscriptions: A 65 Alabaster , Rev. Charles (1834-65). His namesake of 8 iea ethan times was ar 1ss a poet and scholar and Author of Rona. The name is a variant of a bales ter a cross - bowman. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by an aunt of whom he always spoke with affection and gratitude. He was educ. at Kings College and proceeded to Lincoln College, oxford wheres he took his B.A. in '56. He came ont with his wife, Ann O'connor Warner an the Strathallan which called first at Timaru and arrived at Lylt. on 21.1.59. He was told his only chance of living was a sen tip , he was probably con imp ive He was a lo clerical rep. at the fist general Synod o N.Z held 1.3.59. He was assistant to the Rev. O. Mathias for Cutle parish and was then curate At St Luke. He delivered a series of lectures to the ChCh Mechanis Ins tile or Nov. 59 in Constitutional History, There was an audience of 120 and they greeted him witt at palance . He delivered Altogether twelve lectures in his subject. He was seriously ill during 1861 and was unable to do Aung parish work. He was for a time chaplain to Bishops Har per. , letters of He was a man of considerable ability and wrote a series of xtr zine lough o theL Tunes Mr the vexed question of religion in schools e ied. of schooling which was free, compulsory and non - religious was just Emerging at the time . le Lylt. Times an severed him at S. Bernice : LT. 26.1.59 : 2.3.59 : 1.6.59 : 18.6.59 : 19.11.9 : 18.12.61 : 31.12.62 : 28.6.69.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 65. Alabaster Rev. Chas. Equal length and with equal serious ness. Towards the end of 1 his stale of heath sof seemed to be hopeless and he and his wife decided to open a prepaid tory school for boys of to g who were to go on to X's Collie. He said he would help her as ar as possible and his wife C brother wined also be Available. The school was announced in the Lylt. Times of 18.12.61 and actually opened in ' . It was Announced r years in the following words " Boarders will re assemble on (such and such a date) (God Willing He continued to giver a good cleat of help as bing as he lived and o his form character , trans penet good ness, Excellent education made a great impress in br the boys. C.O. Torlesse in a letter says "Alabaster , whose frail body still carries on does what he can to help Mrs P (C.OT. was tamped to send his son there though he questioned the propriety of bringing up bays under such a frail shored of a marr . He and Torlesse shared a very din rew of the average cler 54 man in Canty. tho though very little of such non spiritual men as Mathias. C.O.T. later charged his mind About "his frail shred of a mari and was in a hurry to set his Son Arthur back from Eng land nn order that he might be under Alabaster. The stool became a polo horned success and many well - LT. 21.1.65 : Si James Hight:; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 65. Alabaster Rev. Chas. called Lincoln Cottag e Exe known Canterbury men started their education there. The school was, was next Dugald Macfarlane 's red house on the s.W. com g of Cranmer chmnm. of tehe o) Square, Alabaster was a founder member of the, Mechanis Institute He gave £25 towards the Cathedral Find in 62 which was a very generous donation from a man of his means. He was ar member of the Comm. of the Soc. f r the Promotion of Fine Art. After form years of desperat illness he died 18.1.65 aged 31 His widow became the second wife of Cano Francis Knowers whom she andr ied 25.8.91. She died 25.2.14. Her Mother John Warner later a barrister at Grey on the + died 26.5.85. He and Mrs Alabaster used to sing al concerts Eldest son Austin Henry sec. ( hAr Football Club '83 d. Wgtn 1.10.20 aged 60 marr. 6.11.84 al s Likes by Rev E.A. Lingard to Janelle Stuart dau of J. Bell of She d. 18 Dugdale, Dumfrieshire. He bequeathed £1000 to Canty. Coll to give prizes to students of Classical literature , in memory of his father another son John Chabon r marr. at Pahiatua 20.6.96 Mary Agnes 2' dau of Thos. Blakely, both of ChCh. S. Bruce : 136 LT. 2.4.83 : 12.11.84 : 4.7.96 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer