Richard Davis (missionary)

Richard Davis
Born(1790-01-18)18 January 1790
Dorset, England
Died28 May 1863(1863-05-28) (aged 73)
Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Known forMeteorology, missionising

Reverend Richard Davis (18 January 1790 – 28 May 1863) was a New Zealand meteorologist, missionary and farmer. He made weather recordings in the northern North Island from 1839 to 1844, and 1849 to 1851, making them the oldest continuous land-based recordings in New Zealand. In 2019 they were inscribed into UNESCO's Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao documentary heritage register. Davis was born in Dorset, England.

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