On Saturday 13 August, the Gardens, Animal Walk, Butterfly House and UrbanCrazy Golf will be closed for DLT: Live From Lewisham.
Rev. Leonard P. Robin was a missionary in Torres Islands 1890-1898 and Organising Secretary of the Melanesian Mission in England 1899-1905. The Mission sold artefacts from his collection to Harry Beasley in 1920, some of which came to the British Museum with Beasley's collection in 1944. Burt, Ben; 2012-12-20.
reverand, missionary
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