John Coleridge Patteson (1827-1871) was a English, Christian missionary to the South Seas in 1855, and in 1861 was selected the first Anglican Bishop of Melanesia. He was an accomplished linguist who also spoke German, studied Hebrew and Arabic, and learned 23 of the South Seas Islands' more than 1000 languages. Patteson was killed on September 20, 1871 by natives on Nukapu, in the Solomon Islands. (Photo by George William Perry, early to mid 1860s, registered for copyright in 1871.)

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This is a professionally restored photographic image of a original carte de visite albumen photograph by George William Perry, registered for copyright with the Victorian Patents Office in 1871 where it was originally mounted in a scrapbook. The original collection was transferred to the Melbourne Public Library in 1908 and is part of the State Library Victoria's Victorian Patents Office Copyright Collection. The photographer, George William Perry of Melbourne, was active from 1855-1897.

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