William H. Pettit

William Haddow Pettit MBE (13 April 1885 – 16 December 1985) was a Christian missionary to Bangladesh with the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society from 1910 to 1915, and a leader of the fundamentalist/evangelical movement in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s.

He founded the Crusader Union of New Zealand in 1930 after hosting IVF preacher Howard Guinness, and played a leading role in the formation of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (NZ) (now known as Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship) in 1936.

[2] He contributed a chapter on evolution to the book Heresies Exposed in 1921, which was edited by the British missionary to India, William C. Irvine.

[3] He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.

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