James Chalmers (missionary)

James Chalmers (* August 4, 1841 in Ardrishaig, Argyleshire, Scotland, † April 8, 1901 ) was a Scottish Christian missionary of the London Missionary Society in Rarotonga and New Guinea.

He served for ten years in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and later he spent 23 years in New Guinea, and was considered one of the foremost experts in the region. He was killed in 1901 with his companion Oliver Tomkins on Goaribari Iceland and eaten. Twenty-four Goaribari were killed in turn by Sir George Le Hunte. Due to its moving Martyrs fate there is plenty of biographies.

Works

• James Chalmers & W. Wyatt Gill: Work and Adventure in New Guinea 1877 to 1885, St Paul's Churchyard The Religous Tract Society. . London 1885
• James Chalmers and W. Wyatt Gill: New Guinea:. Trips and missionary activity during the years 1877-1885 [ Translator's: Richard Lesser ] Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1886
• Adventures in New Guinea. 1886
• Pioneering in New Guinea. London 1887
• Pioneer Life and Work in New Guinea 1877-1894. (1895 ).

Biographical Literature

• Richard Lovett: James Chalmers, His Auto- Biography and Letters. Fleming H. Revell New York n.d
• William Robson: James Chalmers. Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea. London, S W. Partridge & Co., 1903
• Cuthbert Lennox: James Chalmers of New Guinea: Missionary, Pioneer, Martyr. Melrose, 1902
• Louise Oehler: Tamate. From the Life of the innovative manufacturer and martyr of the New Guinea Mission James Chalmers. Calw and Stuttgart, published by the Association bookstore., 1904 ( Calw family library Volume 61 )
• Diane Langmore: Tamate - A King; James Chalmers New Guinea from 1877 to 1901. Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Press 1974; ISBN 0-522-84079-5
• P. M. Stevenson: James Chalmers. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1953
• Brenda Hughes: King among the Cannibals - The Story of James Chalmers. London Lutterworth Press 1959