Newcombe , Annie (Mrs H.H. Driver)

- bn Victoria d. Auckland 1943. N.Z.B.M.S. Missionary, East Bengal, 1887-1889. Member of Auckland Baptist Tabernacle. Miss Newcombe was the second N.Z.B.M.S. missionary and joined Rosalie Macgeorge in Faridpur but due to ill health returned to New Zealand in 1889. Further attempts at mission in Simla and Kulu ended similarly. Following her 1892 marriage to H.H. Driver (first secretary of N.Z.B.M.S., see separate entry) her interest in mission remained. She was instrumental in forming the Baptist Women’s Missionary Union and was its first President. She founded the Missionary Training Institute in Dunedin. Ref.: Obituary: NZB February 1943, 33.