George Duggan

George Henry Christen Duggan (3 July 1912 – 16 December 2012) was a New Zealand Marist priest, philosopher, seminary professor and writer.

He was popularly known as Chalky Duggan - after a featherweight boxer who fought in 1919, when Duggan was 7 years old, under the name "Chalky Duggan" and who, like Duggan, came from Runanga

Early life He was born in Runanga and was educated by the Marist Brothers in Greymouth and by the Sisters of Mercy in Reefton. He received his secondary education from the Marist fathers at St Bede's College, Christchurch, of which he was dux two years in a row. Duggan then went to Greenmeadows Seminary in Hawkes Bay in Hawke's Bay, where he was professed as a member of the Marist order on 4 February 1931, the day after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. A Wellington journalist one described Duggan as "chief among the divine publicists".