Edward Hilliard (3 April 1851 – 18 September 1936)[1] was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary from America who worked in Australia, India and Tonga.
Around November 1895 Ida Hilliard began to teach school, first in their temporary home and then in their cottage.
Drinking kava and eating pork are important in Tongan social life but are prohibited by the Adventists.
[7] Before Hilliard left Tonga in 1899 he reported that a Sabbath School with 31 members met regularly.
[4] On 10 September 1899, shortly before leaving Tonga, Hilliard gathered the missionaries into his home and organized them into a church.
[4] A young part-Tongan called David or Horace Holland also sailed to Australia with the Hilliards, and studied at Avondale College from 1900–01.
[2] The Hobart Seventh-Day Adventist school near Hobart, Tasmania was renamed on 1 September 1994 to the Hilliard Christian School in honor of Edward Hilliard, who had led the Seventh-day Adventist church in Tasmania for four years.