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Alexander Robert Edgar
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Alexander Robert Edgar (8 April 1850 – 23 April 1914) was an Australian Methodist missionary and social reformer. He was originally from Ireland.
Quotes
If we Australians took as much trouble to prepare for our summer as the Canadians take to forestall their winter, Australia would be the most prosperous country on earth.
Speech as head of the Central Mission, Melbourne. Quoted in E. W. Cole, Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 (1879), p. 1
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Category:1850 births
Category:1914 deaths
Category:People from Australia
Category:People from Ireland
Category:Methodist ministers