Janus: PERSONAL PAPERS

Selwyn/SEPP contains:
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LAP	LAPAGE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
MAC	MCELDOWNEY COLLECTION
MACQ	PAPERS OF PERCY MACQUEEN
MAR	MARSH COLLECTION
MOR	MORGAN COLLECTION
PAT	PATTESON COLLECTION
POW	POWIS PAPERS
RAM	RAMSAY MURRAY DIARY
ROB	ROBERTS COLLECTION
SEL	SELWYN LETTERS COLLECTION
SPA	SELWYN AND PALMER FAMILY PAPERS
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PERSONAL PAPERS

Title	PATTESON COLLECTION
Reference	SEPP/PAT (former reference: JP)
Creator	PATTESON, John Coleridge
Covering Dates	1854–1870
Extent and Medium	1 box; Paper

Content and context

John Coleridge Patteson was born in London, 1 April 1827, the eldest son of John Patteson and Frances Duke Coleridge. He was educated at Eton, 1838-45, and Balliol College, Oxford,1845-8. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1852-71. He was ordained deacon, 1853, and priest, 1854. He worked as a curate at Alfington, Devon, 1853-4, and as chaplain to Bishop Selwyn in New Zealand and the Melanesian Islands, 1855-61. He was bishop of Melanesia, 1861-71. He was martyred on the island of Nukapu, 20th September 1871.

Correspondence and papers, including bible

Letters and bible presented to Selwyn College by his sister, Frances Sophia Coleridge Patteson, after his murder. See some details of provenance in Calendar 1908-09, pp. 63-8

Index Terms

Patteson, John Coleridge (1827-1871) Missionary Bishop in Melanesia

Selwyn/SEPP/PAT contains:

Diaries.
2 volumes; Paper.

1866–1870

Bible and prayerbook. With ms annotations; Stored in a small wooden case used to display the book in the chapel.
1 volume; Paper.

1835–1836

Copy deed of consecration of John Coleridge Patteson as bishop of Melanesia. With paper seal.
1 item; Paper.

2 March 1861

Miscellaneous correspondence. Includes one manuscript and one typescript; two of letters are addressed to Miss Neill, earlier governess of Patteson and his siblings.
7 items; Paper.

c. 1854-c. 1869

Report of the proceedings of HMS Rosario, during the cruise among the South Sea Islands, between 1st November 1871 and 12th February 1872. Includes manuscript and printed copy; With copy correspondence between George Augustus Selwyn, A. H. Markham, captain of the Rosario, and the Admiralty, 1872; Also with a copy account of the death of John Coleridge Patteson by Charles Brooke, 1871.
1 bundle; Paper.

1871–1872

Poem on the death of John Coleridge Patteson by an unknown author identified as 'A Lady'. Printed.
1 item; Paper.

25 April 1872

Papers of Frances Sophia Coleridge Patteson about the gift of John Coleridge Patteson's pectoral cross to Selwyn College. With a sketch and 2 photographs of cross which is embedded in middle of altar table (one exact size and one enlarged).
1 bundle; Paper.

1889–1898