Shirley Waldemar Baker [SEP] position held
Shirley Waldemar Baker
Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836 – 16 November 1903) was a missionary and Prime Minister of Tonga.
Early life.
Baker was born in London, England, of a Devonshire family. He studied medicine and went to Australia in 1852 as a stowaway. He worked as a farm hand, miner and apothecary's assistant on the goldfields in Victoria. Baker decided to become a missionary and in 1860 was ordained and sent to Tonga by the Australian Wesleyan conference.
Tonga.
Baker became head
he was appointed secretary of the board of missions of the Methodist Church and held this position for many years. In the following year he was appointed a special commissioner to report on the position in Tonga, where there had been serious trouble for some years during the premiership of Shirley Waldemar Baker. He was able to speak the language of the natives and gather evidence for himself. He compiled a comprehensive and valuable series of "Reports by the Rev. George Brown, Special Commissioner of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist General Conference to Tonga"