John Morgan (6 May 1812 – 8 June 1865) was an Anglican missionary and a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the 19th century. He was an important missionary to the Māori who established the Te Awamutu district.
In 1846 Morgan helped to construct 3 water mills that were built by the local Māori to mill wheat for sale.[12]
In 1849 he attended the St John's College, Auckland and was appointed a deacon on 24 June 1849.[1] On 18 December 1853 he was ordained as a priest.[1] He returned to the Waikato and continued teaching in the schools for Māori people.[13] In the early 1860s he acted as a government agent and reported on the Māori King Movement in the Waikato.[1] His activities resulted in his expulsion from Otawhao in April 1863 following the Invasion of the Waikato by colonial government forces.[1] He acted as a chaplain to the military forces from 1863 to 1864. He resigned from the CMS in October 1864 and died on 8 June 1865.[1]
^Rogers, Lawrence M. (1973). Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams. Pegasus Press.
^"Otawhao, New Zealand". The Church Missionary Gleaner. Vol. 2 New Series, no. 1. London: Seeleys. January 1852. pp. 4–6. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via HathiTrust.
The Letters and Journals of Reverend John Morgan, Missionary at Otawhao, 1833-1865, Published in 2 Volumes. Edited, with an Introduction, by Jan Pilditch, Associate Professor of English and director of the Text and Translation Research Unit at the University Waikato. The Grimsay Press, 2010. [1][2]