Life of John Coleridge Patteson

A facsinating biography of John Coleridge Patteson. A missionary to the South Seas from 1855, Patteson became an accomplished linguist, learning 23 of the islands' more than 1,000 languages. In 1861, he was selected as the first Bishop of Melanesia. Patteson was killed by natives on Nukapu, in the Solomon Islands. He is commemorated in the Church of England on 20 September