Patteson
JOHN COLERIDGE, an English missionary; born in London, April 1, 1827, the son of Sir John Patteson, judge in the Queen's Bench , and of a niece of Coleridge, the poet. He passed through Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, elected a Fellow of Merton in 1852, and appointed curate of Alfington, Devonshire. But his thoughts turned to missionary work and in 1855 he sailed with Bishop Selwyn to New Zealand. The next 16 years he spent among the Melanesian Islands- New Hebrides, Banks, Solomon, and Loyalty Islands; and in 1861 he was consecrated Bishop of Melanesia. A most unselfish man and a true Christian, he was Christian, he greatly beloved by the islanders, whom he protected against the white kidnappers of the Pacific. He was killed by the . E He was killed by the natives of Nukapu, one of the Santa Cruz group, Sept. 20, 1871.