218 ORDINATION OF MR. NOBBS. 
long services at Pitcairn, and the high character 
given of him by Admiral Moresby, as well as by 
other competent persons, acceded to his request 
to be admitted to holy orders. 
On Sunday morning, October 24th, 1852, an 
ordination took place in the parish church of 
St. Mary, Islington, by the Bishop of Sierra 
Leone, under a special commission from the 
Bishop of London, when Mr. Nobbs was ad- 
mitted to deacon's orders. Mr. Richard C. 
Paley, B.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, 
a grandson of the eminent Archdeacon Paley, 
was ordained at the same time ; both candidates 
having been presented by the Rev. Henry Venn, 
Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. 
Several of the clergy of the neighbourhood, and 
about twenty students of the Church Missionary 
College, were present. Mr. Paley, who was a 
very young man, entered at once upon his 
arduous and interesting Mission at Abbeokuta, 
Western Africa, but was stopped by the hand 
of death almost at the commencement of his 
missionary career. The other candidate, who 
was more than twice his age, yet lives on, by 
God's good providence, for the benefit of his 
little flock in the Southern Pacific. 
On the 30th November, St. Andrew's-day, 
1852, the Rev. G. H. Nobbs was ordained 
priest in Fulham Church, by the Bishop cf 
London. His description in the letters of orders 
was, " Chaplain of Pitcairn's Island." He 
was presented for priest's orders to the Bishop 
by the author of this work. 
