Eastern Province Herald
The Eastern Province Herald is a newspaper, founded in 1845 and based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. John Paterson, founder of the "Eastern Province Herald" (1822-1880). John Paterson was born in March 1822 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of a vintner/farmer/stone-mason, John Paterson Snr. and his wife Barbara. When John was six years old his father died as a result of an accident in a stone quarry. After John Snr's death, Barbara undertook to educate the boy but in 1832 she was persuaded to send him to Aberdeen Grammar School which he  attended until 1836. While there he studied mathematics under Dr James Gordon of the Mathematical Public School of Aberdeen. The founding of the "Eastern Province Herald". The paper was founded by Scottish immigrant John Paterson (Cape politician - Jock Paterson) on May 7, 1845. In 1841 Paterson was contracted by the Cape Government to become a teacher at the free school in Port Elizabeth. His contract forbade him to hold two jobs so he registered the newspaper in the name of his partner, John Ross Phillip. After an argument with Ross regarding the printing of the newspaper, Paterson temporarily ceased publication  of the "Eastern Province Herald" but after a few months, he resumed publication. In 1857 he sold the "Eastern Province Herald" to his friend Robert Godlonton, owner of the "Grahamstown Journal". Philip opened the competing "Port Elizabeth Mercury" newspaper shortly after the split with Paterson. In the mid-1870s the Cape Colony underwent a massive economic and social growth, and the paper finally became a daily paper in 1878, as well as a full printing company.