Robert Henry Codrington

Robert Henry Codrington was born on 15 September 1830 at Wroughton, in Wiltshire. Educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, an Anglican priest, he joined the Melanesian Mission, whose school on Norfolk Island he ran and which he led from 1871 to 1877. He studied the languages of the islands, above all Mota, of which he published a grammar and, with John Palmer, a dictionary. Back in England at the end of the 1880s, he died in Chichester on 11 September 1922.

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