Modern English biography

telegraph congresses and corresponded with continental governments on international telegraphy; C.B. 3 Aug. 1886; _m._ 1871 Helen, dau. of Nathaniel Overberry, she was granted civil list pension of £200, 10 May 1889. _d._ South lawn, Bickley, Kent 28 March 1889. PATEY, JANET MONACH (dau. of Andrew Whytock of London, grocer). _b._ 30 Kingsgate st. Holborn, London 1 May 1842; first sang in 1860 at Birmingham, under name of Ellen Andrews; pupil of Ciro Pinsuti and Mrs. Sims Reeves; made her first concert tour 1865; _m._ 23 April 1866 John George Patey, baritone singer; principal contralto at Worcester festival 1866, at Birmingham 1867, and at Norwich 1869; the principal English contralto 1870 to death; sang in America 1871; sang in four performances of the Messiah in French in Paris Jany. 1875; sang at two conservatoire concerts there 31 Jany. and 7 Feb. 1875, when presented with a medal; was known as the English Alboni; made a tour in Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan 1890; began a farewell tour of the English provinces at end of 1893. _d._ of apoplexy at the royal Victoria hotel, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1894. _bur._ Brompton cemet. London 3 March. _Biograph Jany. 1882 pp._ 36–8; _London sketch book 7 Aug. 1875 pp._ 8–9 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news v_ 12 (1876) _portrait_, _xv_ 217 (1881) _portrait_, _3 March 1894 p._ 885 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391, 393 (1875) _portrait_. PATMORE, GURNEY (younger brother of Coventry Patmore, poet, _b._ 1823). Sub-editor of Daily News; edited Derby Mercury; connected with Melbourne Argus; returned to England about 1868. _d._ Manchester 24 March 1883. PATMORE, HENRY (3 son of Coventry Patmore the poet, _b._ 1823). _b._ Finchley 8 May 1860; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 1870–7; matric. at univ. of London 1877; lost sight of one eye 1878; went a voyage to the Cape 1881; articled to Henry Watson Parker, solicitor, London 1882; author of Poems by Henry Patmore (1884) memoir pp. i–vi. _d._ Hastings 24 Feb. 1883. PATMORE, PETER GEORGE (son of Peter Patmore, dealer in plate and jewellery). _b._ Ludgate hill, London 1786; friend of Charles Lamb and Wm. Hazlitt from 1824; edited the New monthly magazine 1841–53; contributed to the Liberal, the Westminster and the Retrospective reviews, Blackwood and the London magazines; author of Letters on England, by Count Victoire de Soligny [a pseudonym], 2 vols. 1823; Mirror of the month 1826, anon; British galleries of art 1824, anon; Imitations of celebrated authors, or imaginary rejected articles 1826, anon, 4 ed. 1844; Sir Thomas Lawrence’s cabinet of gems 1837; Chatsworth or the romance of a week, 3 vols. 1844, anon; Finden’s Gallery of beauty, or the court of queen Victoria 1844; Marriage in Mayfair, a comedy 1854; My friends and acquaintances, recollections of deceased celebrities of the nineteenth century, 3 vols. 1855. _d._ near Hampstead 25 Dec. 1855. NOTE.--W. Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris 1823 was based on letters written by P. G. Patmore, and some of Charles Lamb’s epistles are addressed to him. _P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii_ 34–9 (1886). PATON, ADAM (son of Hugh Paton, publisher). _b._ Edinburgh 1836; an inventor of lithographic machines; was engaged in working at a multi-colour machine at time of his death. _d._ Belston road, Leeds 7 Jany. 1893. PATON, ANDREW ARCHIBALD (son of Andrew Paton, saddler). _b._ 75 Broughton st. Edinburgh 19 March 1811; travelled in Eastern Europe, Syria, and Egypt; private secretary to colonel George Hodges in Egypt 1839–40; acting consul-general in Servia Oct. 1843; vice-consul at Missolonghi in Greece 5 April 1858, and at Lubeck 19 Aug. 1859; consul at Ragusa and at Bocca di Cattaro 12 May 1862 to death; F.R.G.S. 11 Feb. 1857; author of The modern Syrians. By An Oriental student 1844; Servia, or a residence in Belgrade 1845, 2 ed. 1855; Highlands and islands of the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1849; The Mamelukes: a romance of life in Grand Cairo, 3 vols. 1851, republished as Melusina, a new Arabian nights entertainment 1861; Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1861. _d._ 5 April 1874. PATON, JOHN STAFFORD (son of John Forbes Paton, captain Bengal engineers). _b._ 3 March 1821; lieut. 14 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840, captain 8 Feb. 1851; served in the Sikh war 1845–6, and the Punjaub campaign 1848–9; A.Q.M.G. at Lahore 12 Sept. 1851, deputy Q.M.G. 15 Sept. 1858, Q.M.G. in Bengal 10 April 1863 to 1868; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; was mentioned in despatches and orders 30 times; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 86 Oxford terrace, London 28 Nov. 1889. PATON, Mary Ann (eld. dau. of George Paton, writing-master at the Edinburgh high school). _b._ Edinburgh Oct. 1802; appeared at public concerts as a singer and as a performer on the harp and pianoforte 1811; sang at concerts in London 1811–14; played Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro at the Haymarket 3 Aug. 1822; sang at Covent Garden as Mandane in Artaxerxes, Rosetta in Love in a village, Adriana in The comedy of errors, and Clara in The Duenna 21 Dec. 1825; sang Agatha in Der Freischutz 14 Oct. 1824, and created part of Reiza in Weber’s opera Oberon 12 April 1826; the leading English soprano singer many years; sang in La Cenerentola and other Italian operas at the King’s theatre 1831, and Alice in Robert le Diable at Drury Lane 1832; sang in America 1834–6; retired to a convent for a year, but reappeared at Princess’s theatre and at concerts, finally retired 1844; became a Roman catholic 1843; lived abroad 1854–63; _m._ (1) 7 May 1824 lord Wm. Pitt Lennox (1799–1881), she obtained a divorce in the Scotch court of session in 1831; _m._ (2) 1831 Joseph Woods, tenor singer; she _d._ Bulcliffe hall, near Chapelthorpe, Wakefield 21 July 1864. _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii_ 45–67 (1863); _The London stage_, _vol. iv portrait_; _Georgian era iv_ 309 (1834); _W. Ball’s London Spring Annual for 1834_, _pp._ 34–35 _portrait_; _Musical Gem for 1832_, _p._ 46 _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography v_ 19 (1826) _portrait_. PATON, WALLER HUGH (son of Joseph Neil Paton, damask designer). _b._ Wooers-Alley, Dunfermline 27 July 1828; pupil of John Houston, R.S.A.; an associate of the R.S.A. 1857, member 1865, contributed pictures to its exhibitions 1851 to death; prepared with his brother, sir Noel Paton, illustrations for Aytoun’s Lays of the Scottish cavaliers 1863; exhibited 16 landscapes at Royal academy, London 1860–80; F.S.A. Scotland 1869; member of royal Scottish society of water-colour painters 1878; his diploma picture Lamlash Bay is in the national gallery, Edinburgh; illustrated Poems and songs of R. Burns 1868; and The poetical works of E. A. Poe 1869. _d._ 14 George sq. Edinburgh 8 March 1895. PATON, WALTER. _b._ 1793; an eminent penman; author of Penmanship 1825; Paton’s Flowers of penmanship 1840. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 11 Sept. 1855. PATRICK, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 4 June 1803; a musical composer; made collections of books, paintings, and minerals; Associate British Archæol. assoc. from 1847; composer of Forget me not, a ballad