William H. Pettit

William Haddow Pettit MBE (13 April 1885 – 16 December 1985) was a Christian missionary to Bangladesh with the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society from 1910–1915, and a leader of the fundamentalist/evangelical movement in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. He founded the Crusader Union of New Zealand in 1930 after hosting IVF preacher Howard Guinness, and played a leading role in the formation of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (NZ) (now known as Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship) in 1936.[1]

Pettit attended Nelson College from 1899 to 1903.[2] He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Haddow Pettit, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition