Story: Deck, James George

James George Deck

James George Deck

This portrait of James Deck shows him in uniform as a young man. An evangelical conversion while serving in the military led him to resign his commission, and in the 1830s he joined the Plymouth Brethren.

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Peter J. Lineham. 'Deck, James George', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990, updated September, 2015. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1d8/deck-james-george (accessed 1 May 2024)