Reverend Frederick James Paton (1867-1941) was son of the Presbyterian missionary the Rev. Dr John G. Paton and born at Aniwa, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). After being educated in Australia and serving there for a short time as a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. F.J. Paton returned to the New Hebrides and spent most of the rest of his life there as a missionary.
Helen I.M.R. Paton (Nellie, 1877-1905) was a daughter of the Reverend H.A. Robertson, who was a missionary on Erromango, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Nellie Paton was also wife of the Rev. Frederick J. Paton, a Presbyterian missionary to the New Hebrides.
Captain William Driver was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in the USA. He went to sea at the age of 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji, looking for beche-de-mer, in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee.
Official interpreter for the German administration in Western Samoa. Wrote a number of books on the Samoan language. Fround drowned at Apia, Samoa, on 18 November 1919.
The Rev. John R. Metcalfe (1889-1970) was born in Yorkshire and served as a Methodist missionary in the Solomon Islands for 37 years. He served as a home missionary in Great Britain before moving to Victoria in 1914. He became a candidate for the Methodist ministry in 1916, and after being ordained was appointed to the Solomon Islands in 1920. After a brief period at Roviana, he was appointed to Choiseul (Lauru island) as assistant to the Rev. V. LeC. Binet. Apart from four years at Teop, he remained on Choiseul (with a break during the war) until 1951. He was then appointed chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons. He retired in 1957, but continued to take an active interest in the mission until his death.
Samuel Greatheed was one of the founders of the Missionary Society in 1795. It was renamed the London Missionary Society in 1818.