Rainsford Bavin, a Methodist minister from Lincolnshire, England, and his New Zealand-born wife Emma, née Buddle.
[4] In 1896 Bavin was invited by the Methodist Episcopal Church in India to join the staff of the mission high school at Poona prior to entering the ministry.
[5] After returning from India he became a student at the Wesleyan Theological Institution which was then based in the grounds of Newington College.
[6] In 1914, Bavin contributed a chapter, The Indian in Fiji, to the book, A century in the Pacific, edited by James Colwell with an introduction by William Henry Fitchett.
There were four children of the marriage, all born in Fiji: Edna Joy 1905–1970; Eben Rainsford1907-1987; Charles Rainsford 1912–1914; and Phyllis Ruth 1916–2000.