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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Red cloth binding with gilt titles to spine, monochrome frontis portrait. Tight and square, light foxing in edges, gift inscription and small name in front. Dust jacket is unclipped and unfaded but has small edge tears and gaps to top edge, in a clear film protective sleeve.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Hardcover stains to bottom of boards, name inside, with dust jacket scuffed, chipped, closed tears, and small piece missing. Rutherford Waddell is one of the outstanding personalities of nineteenth century Otago. A Presbyterian Minister at Dunedin's inner city parish of St Andrews for forty years, his influence was profound within the Church but reached far beyond it. His status, in the Presbyterian Church and in Dunedin and New Zealand society, was hard-won. As an Ulster-man he came from outside the dominant Presbyterian tradition in a colonial settlement that had begun as a Scottish Free Church enterprise. Scottish cultural and religious mores remained a pervasive influence in Otago well into the twentieth century. He was moreover a figure associated with radical social thought in a place and time where conservative values were pre-dominant. Waddell's rise to eminence is thus noteworthy on several counts. It invites reflection - in the context of this collection of essays - on his Ulster background. This paper offers an exploration of Waddell's ministry, teasing out the challenges and opportunities for an Irish 'outsider' in New Zealand's southern Scottish Kirk.…