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==Fr Clair Marie Léopold Verguet==

Fr Léopold Verguet (1817-1914) was a priest of the diocese of Carcassonne, France, who was briefly a member of the Society of Mary and a missionary who was part of the first mission group to the Solomons. Verguet had a short and traumatic career as a missionary but documented it with letters, sketches and watercolours.

:*18450202 Departed London, went via Cape Town to Sydney arrived 22 June 1845 
:*18451023 Left Sydney,  made landfall in New Caledonia 17 November 1845 
:*18451123 Left New Caledonia arrived San Cristobal (Makira) 2 Dec 1845 
:*18451213 started exploring Santa Isabel (Thousand Ships Bay) 
:*18451216 the party is attacked and Bishop Epalle fatally wounded 
:*18451219 Bishop Epalle died and was buried the next day. 
:*18460103 Verguet and others start the mission on San Cristobal (Makira) 
:*18470219 Verguet departs San Cristobal  
:*18470306 Arrives Sydney and spends time recuperating 
:*18470509  Verguet and Collomb on board the Spec (Speculator?) left Sydney for New Zealand 
:*18470523  Episcopal ordination of Collomb in Kororāreka 
:*18470602  Bp Collomb and Verguet depart Bay of Islands for New Caledonia on the Spec 
:*18470629  Spec arrives at the main mission of Baïao on New Caledonia 
:*18470715 Verguet goes by land to Pouebo (secondary mission station) New Caledonia
:*18470717 Spec leaves for Indonesia 
:*18470718 Mission station at Baïao, Balade is attacked (Br Blaise injured) 
:*18470719 Station attacked again, occupants flee to Pouebo but Blaise is killed. 
:*18470812 The French naval vessel the Brillante arrives at Pouebo 
:*Brillante takes Verguet and the missionaries to Anatom (Vanuatu) [arriving 15 August 1847] and then to Sydney [arriving 27 August 1847] 
:*18471003 Verguet left Sydney on the barque Tory destined for London. (It stopped over at St Helena on 6 Jan 1848) 
:*18480306 Verguet arrives in London and later in the month travels to Lyon and stays with the Marists there before leaving the Society and re-joining the diocese of Carcassonne. 
:*18480319 Verguet arrived in Lyon Poupinel doc 72 

:1848 by September Verguet is assistant priest at Lodève Poupinel doc 91

:1883 Verguet published a small book entitled ''Gran Archipel des Iles Salomon son Étendue, sa Fertilité''. 
:1885 Verguet published a forty-page article for the ''Revue d’Ethnographe'' entitled “Arossi ou San-Christoval et ses habitants”