Career
James Calvert was a native of Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. His last act as a king was to cede Fiji to Great Britain. In 1856 Calvert returned to England, and during his stay in the country superintended the printing of the entire Scriptures in the Fijian language.
In 1872 he was sent out by the Wesleyan Missionary Society to South Africa.
He died at Hastings, England, in 1892 aged seventy-nine. In that year he founded a Wesleyan chapel in Hastings.
After his death it was named the Calvert Memorial Chapel.
