Person’s Profile
The Rt. Rev. John Coleridge Patteson (1827-20 Sept 1871)
Description
missionary Bishop of Melanesia
Biography
He was killed in the Santa Cruz or Queen Charlotte Islands, the outer part of the New Hebrides, now administratively part of the Solomon Islands [ILN 9 Dec 1871 559 text 561 picture; Oxford Hammond Atlas of the World; Sir John Gutch Martyr of the Islands (1971); ODNB]