William H. Pettit, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam H. Pettit
New Zealand missionary
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1885
Date of Death: 16-Dec-1985
Profession: missionary
Nationality: New Zealand
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About William H. Pettit
- William Haddow Pettit (13 April 1885 – 16 December 1985) was a Christian missionary to Bangladesh with the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society from 1910–1915, 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.
- He later joined the Open Brethren.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.
- His credentials are listed as M.B.
- and Ch.B. Pettit attended Nelson College from 1899 to 1903.
- He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
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