William H. Pettit
Deceased Person
1885 – 1985
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Who was William H. Pettit?
William Haddow Pettit MBE was a Christian missionary to Bangladesh with the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society from 1910–1915, and a leader of the fundamentalist/evangelical movement in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. He founded the Crusader Union of New Zealand in 1930 after hosting IVF preacher Howard Guinness, and played a leading role in the formation of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions in 1936.
Pettit attended Nelson College from 1899 to 1903. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
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- Born
- 1885
- Also known as
- William Pettit
- Education
- Nelson College
- Died
- 1985
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on July 23, 2013
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