Fraser, John Gideon

- bn Ireland c. 1840 d. Christchurch 25 April 1920. Printer and Lay Preacher. Union Committee 1910/11. Vice President Union 1911/12. President Union 1912/13. Fraser completed his apprenticeship in London in the 1840s and there he became a Christian, was baptised, and met and married his wife (see separate entry). In New Zealand he was a Deacon of the Hanover St Church in Dunedin and then served in various roles at Oxford Tce in Christchurch. He and his brother T.E. Fraser had a printing business in Christchurch which printed and published the early editions of the NZ Baptist. Ref.: Obituary: NZB June 1920, 84.