Jean-Amand Lamaze (1833 - 9 September 1906) was a

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clergyman and

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for the

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. He was born in

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and came to Australia in 1864. He then worked as a missionary in Tonga for 15 years, before being appointed bishop in 1879. He died in 1906 and was buried in Maufaga.

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