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Lorimer Fison was born in Barningham, Suffolk in 1832 to Thomas Fison and Charlotte Reynolds.[1]
He was a student at Caius College, Cambridge in 1855 before being suspended.[2] He travelled to Victoria, Australia where he married Jane Thomas in 1862. They had seven children:
- Jeanette Draper Fison, born 1863;
- Mary Calvert Fison, born 1864;
- Martha Grindrod Fison, born 1867;
- Joseph Lorimer Fison, born 1868;
- William Frederick Fison, born 1869;
- Louis Jane Fison, born 1873;
- Charlotte Anna Fison, born 1873.
Lorimer was ordained a Methodist minister in 1863.[3] He spent several years in Fiji and wrote anthropological works on Fijian and Australian Aboriginal culture, the latter in collaboration with Alfred William Howitt.
Lorimer died in Essendon, Victoria in 1907.[4]
Sources
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMK1-PYL : 11 February 2018, Lorimer Fison, 09 Nov 1832); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 0825399 (RG4 3092).
- ↑ http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=FY855L&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50
- ↑ W. E. H. Stanner, 'Fison, Lorimer (1832–1907)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fison-lorimer-3523/text5423, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 23 January 2020.
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q291-N2ZY : 15 March 2016), Lorimer Fison, 1907; Burial, Kew, Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia, Boroondara General Cemetery; citing record ID 156966765, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- Wikipedia contributors. "Lorimer Fison." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 Oct. 2019. Web. 23 Jan. 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorimer_Fison