Henry Dison Buswell (1839-1940) was a long lived

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. Hobbs was educated at the

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and ordained deacon in 1862 and priest in 1863. He served in

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, Mauritius,

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and the Seychelles, where he was

from 1895 to 1913. While in Mauritius, he was responsible for the establishment of St Paul's Theological College. He died on 17 March 1940 aged 101.

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