Percy Chatterton

Sir Percy Chatterton OBE (8 October 1898 – 25 November 1984) was an English-born Papua New Guinean educator, clergyman and politician.

[2] In 1921 Chatterton began working as a physical education and science teacher at the Friends School in Penketh.

He ran the LMS school in Hanuabada between 1924 and 1939, with Christian teaching the infant year groups.

[3] He was heavily involved in setting up Papua Ekalesia in 1962, the first locally-run church in the territory,[2] becoming its first chairman.

[2] After ending his columns in Pacific Islands Monthly in 1973, he published a Hiri Motu translation of the Bible the following year, alongside an memoir Day That I Have Loved.