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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATTESON , sionary, See also:

bishop of See also:Melanesia, was See also:born in See also:London on the 1st of See also:April 1827, the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:John Patteson, See also:justice of the See also:King's See also:Bench, and Frances See also:Duke See also:Coleridge, a near relative of See also:Samuel See also:Taylor Coleridge. He was educated at Ottery St See also:Mary and at See also:Eton, where he distinguished himself on the See also:cricket-See also:field. He entered Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1845, graduated B.A. in 1848, and in 1852 became a See also:fellow of Merton College. In 1853 he became See also:curate of Alfington, See also:Devon, and in the following See also:year he was ordained See also:priest. He then joined See also:George See also:Augustus See also:Selwyn, bishop of New See also:Zealand, in a See also:mission to the Melanesian islands. There he laboured with See also:great success, visiting the different islands of the See also:group in the mission See also:ship the " See also:Southern See also:Cross," and by his See also:good sense and devotion winning the esteem and See also:affection of the natives. His linguistic See also:powers were ' The word is taken from an obsolete See also:French chapine or See also:Spanish chapin, and is of doubtful origin. The Spanish chapa, See also:flat See also:plate, has been suggested. The word does not occur in See also:Italian, though it is often Italianized in See also:English in such forms as cioppino. exceptional, and he spoke 23 See also:languages with ease. In 1861 he was consecrated bishop of Melanesia, and fixed his headquarters at Mota. He was killed by natives at Nukapu, in the See also:Santa Cruz group, on the loth of See also:September 1871, the victim of a tragic See also:error.

The traders engaged in the nefarious See also:

traffic in See also:Kanaka labour for See also:Fiji and See also:Queensland had taken to personating missionaries in See also:order to facilitate their See also:kidnapping; Patteson was mistaken for one of these and killed. His murderers evidently found out their See also:mistake and repented of it, for the bishop's See also:body was found at See also:sea floating in a See also:canoe, covered with a See also:palm fibre See also:matting, and a palm-See also:branch in his See also:hand. He is thus represented in the bas-See also:relief erected in Merton College to his memory. See See also:Life by See also:Charlotte M. See also:Yonge (1873).

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