PATON, JOHN GIBSON

PATON, JOHN GIBSON
   missionary to the New Hebrides, son of a stocking-weaver of Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire; after some work in Glasgow City Mission was ordained by the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and laboured in Tanna and Aniwa for twenty-five years; his account of his work was published in 1890; b. 1824.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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