A. K. Langridge

Albert Kent Langridge (1857 – 2 October 1938) was a British missionary and writer, best known as co-author of several biographies of John Gibson Paton.

History Langridge was born in London in 1857 and baptised in Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire. In 1880, he, his parents, and his eight siblings were living in Kendall County, Texas on a farm.

He worked as a General Post Office employee and friend and honorary secretary to John G. Paton, noted Presbyterian missionary in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu).

He founded the John G. Paton Mission Fund in October 1890 and operated it from Britain as a supportive body, sending out personnel, equipment, launches and building several small hospitals. Paton was consulted only after the project was established and he had no control over its funds.

He was an informant in Vanuatu to the UK Government on the abuses perpetrated by "blackbirders" on Kanaka laborers employed in sugar cane harvesting in Queensland.

In 1906 was living at "Aniwa", Crowstone Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.