James Henry Pope
James Henry Pope was a New Zealand teacher, school inspector, educationalist, amateur astronomer and writer. He was the first Inspector of Native schools in New Zealand in 1980. Pope was one of the founders of the Polynesian Society and was its President from 1899 to 1900. He was the father of the poet, cricketer and teacher Robert J. Pope
James Henry Pope was born in St Helier, Channel Islands in 1837., onSeptember 1837, the son of Jane Dacombe and her husband James Pope, a retired English confectioner who migrated from Hampshire to Jersey in the early 1830s. He was educated privately in Jersey where he became fluent in French before he emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, with his parents in 1852 aged 15, on the Castle Eden and landed at Port Phillip, Melbourne.
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