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Charles Henry Laws

Methodist minister and administrator (1867-1958)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5078950 ↗
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Charles Henry Laws (21 January 1867 – 8 February 1958) was a New Zealand Methodist minister and administrator. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, on 21 January 1867. Laws studied geology at Auckland University College in the 1890s.

Laws' son was geologist and malacologist Charles Reed Laws.

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“Charles Henry Laws” enters the record as methodist minister and administrator (1867-1958). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charles, Henry and Laws can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Henry Laws” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.