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"D. W. R." Rev. D. W. Runciman, M.A., Glasgow.

THE REV. D. W. RUNCIMAN, M.A., Registrar of the Auckland University College, was born in Edinburgh on the 26th of June, 1837. A son of the Rev. David Runciman, D.D., of St. Andrew's Parish, Glasgow, he was educated at the Glasgow High School and University, graduating as M.A. in 1860. Four years later he was ordained minister of the parish of Leslie in the county of Fife. In 1876 Mr. Runciman was advised to try this Colony in search of health, and accordingly sailed for Auckland in the ship “Jessie Osborne.” In the following February he was appointed to the charge of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Ponsonby, which position he held until 1889, when he retired and settled on a farm of some seventy acres at East Tamaki, where the reverend gentleman spent about five years in peaceful retirement, keeping up his interest in the cause of education as a useful member of the Papatoetoe school committee. Mr. Runciman was appointed Registrar of Auckland University College on the 1st of September, 1894. He died 24 Jul 1910 in Auckland, New Zealand