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Annie Jane Grantham (“Gran”)
1922-1946 / NZBTI Housekeeper, Matron (Hopetoun Street, Queen Street) One of the unheralded people in this College’s history is a woman...
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Charles (Charlie) Bennet, MBE
1935-1936 / NZBTI (Queen Street Campus) At age 23 Charlie was working on a farm in Gore when he was persuaded to hear the Irish...
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Professor Edward Musgrave Blaiklock, OBE
Lecturer in NT Greek, 1927-1975 Board Member (1939-1964), Board Chair and President (1965-1975) As a trainee teacher in 1921 Ted...
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Henry Yolland
1927-1960 Lecturer and Dean of NZ Bible Training Institute (Queen Street Campus) Born in August 1883, Henry Yolland was brought up in...
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Hessell Troughton
1930-1931, NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street campus) Hessell William Forster Troughton was born in Thames in 1907 and grew up on dairy farms in...
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Hilda Griffin (née Allen)
1939 – 1940 / NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street Campus) Hilda was the 8th of 10 children, and one of the few among her peers who attended high...
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Rev. Joseph W. Kemp
Founder and Principal, NZ Bible Training Institute, 1922-1932 Joseph William Kemp was born in the port city of Hull, England, in December...
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Leslie William (Les) Rushbrook
1934-1935 / NZBTI Diploma, Queen Street Campus, 1936-1981 / Secretary-Treasurer/Registrar At only 18 years of age, Les began studies at...
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Norman and Amy McIntosh
Norman McIntosh 1934-1935 / NZBTI Diploma, Queen Street Campus Amy McIntosh (neé Carter) 1933-1934 / NZBTI Diploma, Queen Street Campus...
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Sir Norman Perry, KT, MBE
1935-36 / NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street Campus) Born at Tiniroto in the back blocks between Wairoa and Gisborne, Norman grew up in...
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Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw, CBE
1922 – 1942 / Board member, NZ Bible Training Institute 1943 – 1965 / President, NZ Bible Training Institute Robert Laidlaw joined Rev....
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Rev. Herbert Roy Puddle
1936-1937 NZBTI Diploma (Queen Street Campus) Roy was converted through the ministry of Lionel Fletcher at age 20 and played an active...
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Wilbur Thomas Clark
1930-1931 (Queen Street Campus) Wilbur Clark has the distinction of being the 100th graduate to serve in overseas mission, fulfilling a...
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