Frederick Bennett, who had a Ngāti Whakaue mother and an Irish father, was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1897. He spent 13 years as superintendent of the Māori mission in Rotorua before moving to Hastings for mission work in Hawke’s Bay.
Frederick Bennett
Main image: Group including Tai Mitchell and Peter Buck
Photograph of Frederick
Augustus Bennett, Peter Henry Buck, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Baucke, and Tai Mitchell taken 20 December 1907 by Edith
Preen, probably
in Rotorua.