James K. Baxter

James Keir Baxter was born in Dunedin on 29 June 1926, the son of an Otago farmer who had been a conscientious objector during the Great War; his first name honours the socialist Keir Hardie. A boarder at a Quaker school in England, he entered the University of Otago in 1944, which drink led him to abandon. He lived by odd jobs, married Jacquie Sturm, a Māori student, in 1948, converted to Catholicism and left for India in 1958 on a UNESCO grant. A postman in 1963, he died of a coronary thrombosis in Auckland on 22 October 1972.

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