Summary: | Methodist minister. Appointed principal of Tupou College in Tonga in 1939, and Director of Education in Tonga during World War II. He returned to Australia in 1945, later becoming general secretary of the Overseas Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. The collection includes a list with portraits and relevant dates of the Methodist missionaries to Tonga to 1931, compiled by G. B. Minns, transcripts of articles and sermons by Gribble and others, and many publications concerning Methodist missions in Tonga, Fiji and elsewhere in Oceanica, some in Tongan or Fijian.
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