 Coillard was further shaken in 1903 by a breakaway movement of his converts, led by Willie Mokalapa.Coillard suffered a fatal attack of haematuric fever at Lealui and died on 27 May 1904; he was buried near his wife at Sefula.Norman Etherington, ‘"Coillard, François (1834–1904)"’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 16 July 2006

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