Modern English biography

Feniton churchyard 5 July, memorial window placed in Feniton church Jany. 1865. _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_ (1895) 95–9 _portrait_; _Creasy’s Eminent Etonians_ (1876) 589–90; _I.L.N. xxii_ 45 (1852), _view of testimonial_; _Law Magazine xlvii_ 90–104 (1852); _Law magazine and law review xiii_ 197–224 (1862); _Foss’s Judges ix_ 235 (1864). NOTE.--No other instance has ever occurred of a barrister of only nine years’ practice being raised to the bench. PATTESON, JOHN COLERIDGE (elder son of preceding). _b._ 1827; educ. Ottery, St. Mary gr. sch. 1835–8, and Eton 1838–45, captain of the cricket eleven; a commoner of Balliol coll. Oxford 1845–8; B.A. 1848, M.A. 1853, D.D. 1861; fellow of Merton 1852 to death; C. of Alphington, South Devon Sept. 1853 to March 1855; landed at Auckland, New Zealand May 1855; took boys from the Melanesian islands and taught them in New Zealand 1856–61; missionary bishop in Melanesia 1861 to death; learnt to speak 23 languages, translated into the Mata language the gospels of St. Luke and St. John and other parts of scripture; _killed_ by the natives on the island of Nukapu, Melanesia 20 Sept. 1871. _bur._ at sea 21 Sept., memorial cross erected at Nukapu 1884. _C. M. Yonge’s Life of J. C. Patteson_, 2 _vols._ (1878), _two portraits_; _F. Awdry’s Story of a fellow soldier_ (1875); _Creasy’s Eminent Etonians_ (1876) 624–8; _I.L.N. lix_ 559, 561 (1871) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 383, 384 (1874) _portrait_. PATTI, CARLOTTA (dau. of Salvator Patti, singer, _d._ 21 Aug. 1869). _b._ Florence 30 Oct. 1835; first appeared as a concert singer at Academy of music, New York 1861; toured in North America with Max Strakosch’s concert party 1862; came to London 22 March 1863; sang at Covent Garden theatre and Crystal palace 16 April and 9 May 1863; sang in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1863–9; sang the Queen of the night in Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte and other parts with Strakosch’s company in New York 1869; sang in Rossini’s Barber of Seville and in Don Pasquale at Buenos Ayres 1870; sang with Mario in the United States 1872, and at the London Philharmonic, and other concerts from 1872; had a soprano voice extending from C below the clef to G sharp in alt.; retired 1879; _m._ 3 Sept. 1879 Ernest de Munck, solo violoncellist to the grand duke of Saxe Weimar; she _d._ from cancer at her house, Rue Pierre-Charron, Paris 27 June 1889. _London sketch book Nov. 1874 pp._ 1–2 _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world xi_ 221 (1862) _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iv_ 441 (1865) _portrait_, _v_ 529 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. times 13 June 1863 p._ 405 _portrait_. PATTINSON, HUGH LEE (son of Thomas Pattinson of Alston, Cumberland, retail trader _d._ 19 May 1812). _b._ Alston 25 Dec. 1796; assay master to the lords of the manor at Alston 1825, discovered method of separating the silver from lead ore Jany. 1829, which he patented 1833; manager of Wentworth Beaumont’s lead works 1831–4; established with John Lee and George Burnett chemical works at Felling 1834, and at Washington, 1843, both in Durham; his process for desilverisation of lead has led to the invention of the German verb Pattinsoniren and French substantive Pattinsonage; discovered a simple method for obtaining white lead, by a process which gave rise to formation of the new compound oxychloride of lead, patented 1841, a new process also patented 1841 for manufacturing magnesia alba; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S.; F.C.S.; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; author of 8 papers on lead mining and electrical phenomena; originally a quaker but was baptised into the church of England 23 Dec. 1815 when he took the additional name of Lee. _d._ Scot’s House, near Gateshead 11 Nov. 1858. _Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv_ 273–320 (1873) _portrait_; _Percy’s Metallurgy lead_ (1875) 121–44. PATTISON, DOROTHY WYNDLOW (youngest dau. of Mark James Pattison 1788–1865, rector of Haukswell, near Richmond, Yorkshire). _b._ Haukswell 16 Jany. 1832; village schoolmistress in parish of Little Woolston, near Blatchley, Bucks. 1861–4; member of the sisterhood of the Good Samaritan at Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire 1864, and adopted the name of Sister Dora; nurse at a small cottage hospital at Walsall 1865, was in charge of the new hospital built 1867, resigned Feb. 1877; trained lady nurses at Walsall; left the community of the Good Samaritan 1874; was in charge of the municipal epidemic hospital in Walsall Feb. 1877 to 21 June 1878, where the cases were chiefly smallpox. _d._ Walsall 24 Dec. 1878, memorial window in the parish church and statue unveiled at Walsall 11 Oct. 1886. _M. Lonsdale’s Sister Dora_ (1880) _portrait_; _Ridsdale’s Sister Dora_ (1880); _Sister Dora and her statue_, _Walsall_ (1886) _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review May 1880 pp._ 656–71. PATTISON, GEORGE HANDASYDE (eld. son of Wm. Pattison of Wooler, Northumberland). _b._ Wooler 1806; educ. high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate in Edinburgh 1834; sheriff of counties of Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk 1868 to death. _d._ 9 Albyn place, Edinburgh 5 April 1885. PATTISON, GRANVILLE SHARP (youngest son of John Pattison of Kelvin Grove, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1792; member of faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow 1813; lectured privately on anatomy in Philadelphia 1818; professor of anatomy, physiology, and surgery in the univ. of Maryland in Baltimore 1820–5; returned to England July 1827; professor of anatomy at London univ. 1827, removed from his professorship 23 July 1831; surgeon to the univ. dispensary to 1831; professor of anatomy in the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia 1831–40; professor of anatomy in univ. of New York 1840 to death; edited the American recorder 1820, and the Register and library of medical and chirurgical science, Washington 1833–6; co-editor of the American medical library and intelligencer, Philadelphia 1836; translated J. N. Masse’s Anatomical atlas, New York 1881; author of Experimental observations on the operation of lithotomy, Philadelphia 1820; A lecture on the question, has the parotid gland ever been extirpated 1833. _d._ New York 12 Nov. 1851. _Pattison’s Statement of his connexion with university of London_ (1831); _New York journal of medicine viii_ 143 (1852). PATTISON, MARK (brother of Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison 1832–78). _b._ Hornby, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1813; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1851; lived in Newman’s house in St. Aldate’s 1838–9; fellow of Lincoln coll. 8 Nov. 1839 to 1860, Greek lecturer 1841, tutor 1843–55, bursar 1843, sub-rector 1846, rector Feb. 1861 to death; Denyer theological prizeman 1841 and 1842; examiner in school of literæ humaniores 1848, 1853, and 1870; assistant comr. to report upon continental education 1859; pro vice-chancellor 1861; curator of Bodleian library May 1869; curator of Taylor institution at Oxford 4 March 1873; contributed Tendencies of religious thought in England 1688–1750 to Essays and reviews 1860, which went to 5 editions; wrote the articles Religion and philosophy in the literary chronicle of the Westminster Review to end of 1855; wrote for the Saturday Review 1855–77; edited for the Clarendon press Pope’s Essay on man 1869, 2 ed. 1872, and Pope’s Satires and epistles 1872, 2 ed. 1874; wrote seven biographical notices in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; collected about 14,000 volumes, the largest private library, at Oxford, which was sold at Sotheby’s July and Aug. 1885; is drawn by Rhoda Broughton in her novel Belinda 1883 as professor Forth; author of The life of Isaac Casaubon 1875, 2 ed. 1892; Sermons 1885; Essays, 2 vols. 1889. _d._ Harrogate 30 July 1884. _bur._ in Harlow Hill churchyard, near Harrogate. _Memoirs by Mark Pattison, edited by Mrs. Pattison_ (1885); _L. A. Tollemache’s Stones of stumbling_ (1893) 119–203; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1885 pp._ 31–49; _Journal of education_ (1885) 149, 253–65, 427–8; _Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1884 pp._ 401–8; _Academy 9 Aug. 1884 pp._ 92–4; _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 181 (1884) _portrait_. PATTISON, SAMUEL ROWLES (son of S. R. Pattison 1785–1865). _b._ Stroud, Gloucs. 27 October 1809; a solicitor 1831; at Launceston, Cornwall 1836–53; F.G.S.; solicitor London 1853; head of firm of Pattison, Wigg, Gurney, and King, solicitors 11 Queen Victoria st. London 1875; author of Chapters on fossil botany 1849; Some account of the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Launceston 1852; Notes on Launceston castle 1852; The religious topography of England 1882; The earth and the world, or geology for bible students 1858; On the history of evangelical christianity 1875; The rise and progress of religious life in England 1864; resident at 17 Edwardes square, Kensington 1896. PATTLE, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1812; cornet 16 light dragoons 13 June 1834, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to 11 Feb. 1859; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 11 Feb. 1859 to 12 July 1868, when placed on h.p.; served in China as brigadier in command of cavalry in the campaign of 1860; col. 2 dragoon guards 27 Oct. 1881 to death; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 5 Camden crescent, Dover 21 Dec. 1881. PATTLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1783; cadet 1798; cornet in Bengal 19 March 1801, capt. 8 Jany. 1816, major 26 June 1826; lieut.-col. 4 Bengal light cavalry 27 April 1833; lieut. col. of 10 light cavalry 1837–8, of 8 light cavalry 1838–40, of 1 light cavalry 1840–1, and of 9 light cavalry 1841–3; commanded the cavalry throughout sir Charles Napier’s campaign in Scinde 1843; aide-de-camp to the queen 4 July 1843 to 20 June 1854; col. 1 Bengal light cavalry 5 Jan. 1844 to 1848; col. 11 light cavalry 1848–49; col. 4 light cavalry 1849–58; col. 3 European light cavalry 1858–62; col. 19 hussars 30 Sept. 1862 to death; general 9 Oct. 1863; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ Dawlish, Devon 9 Feb. 1865. PATTON, ARTHUR (son of a clergyman). _b._ 1854; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1876; called to the Irish bar 1884; an energetic speaker against the home rule movement in England and Scotland from 1886; a musician; edited Blue, white and red, a Christmas annual, Rathmines, Dublin 1872. _d._ Cirencester 20 Oct. 1892. _Times 21 Oct. 1892 p._ 7. PATTON, GEORGE, Lord Glenalmond (3 son of James Patton, sheriff-clerk of Perthshire). _b._ the Cairnies, Perth 1803; educ. univ. of Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. Camb. 1826; admitted advocate 1828; solicitor general for Scotland 3 May 1859; M.P. Bridgwater Aug. 1865 to May 1866; contested Bridgwater 7 June 1866; lord advocate 12 July 1866; lord justice clerk and lord president of second division, with title of lord Glenalmond 27 Feb. 1867 to death; P.C. 4 Nov. 1867; planted extensive forests of coniferous trees on his Glenalmond estate 1831 etc.; cut his throat and threw himself into the river Almond at Glenalmond 20 Sept. 1869, body found near bridge of Buchanty 24 Sept. _bur._ Monzie churchyard. _T. Hunter’s Woods, forests, and estates of Perthshire_ (1883) 356–64; _Law mag. and law review xxix_ 267–71 (1870); _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 195 (1869); _Law Journal iv_ 520, 534 (1869). PATTON, HUGH (son of colonel Patton, governor of St. Helena). Entered navy Oct. 1804; commanded the Alban 12 guns on Plymouth station 1815–18; captain 12 Aug. 1819; retired 1 Oct. 1846; R.A. 19 Jany. 1852, V.A. 10 Sept. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. _d._ Cockspur st. London 18 March 1864. PATTON, JOHN. _b._ 24 March 1800; ensign 33 foot 18 Sept. 1817; lieut. 46 foot 1821; captain 12 foot 16 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 18 Aug. 1843; inspecting field officer of recruits 8 Feb. 1850 to 19 Feb. 1859; col. of 47 foot 8 Dec. 1867 and of 12 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; general 10 Oct. 1874. _d._ Vicar’s Hill, Lymington, Hampshire 27 Feb. 1888. PATTON, ROBERT (son of Charles Patton, captain R.N.) _b._ 1791; entered navy 1 Feb. 1804; served at battle of Trafalgar 1805; captain 30 April 1827; retired R.A. 7 Aug. 1854; retired admiral 16 Sept. 1864. _d._ Fareham, Hampshire 30 Aug. 1883. _Graphic xix_ 217 (1879) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 285 (1883) _portrait_. PATTON-BETHUNE, ANNE FLORENCE LOUISA MARY (2 dau. of Walter Douglas Phillips Patton-Bethune of Clayton priory, Sussex, _b._ 1821, col. 74 highlanders). _b._ Stoke house, Stoke St. Mary, near Taunton 17 March 1866; a good horsewoman, well known in the Sussex hunting fields; author of 2 novels Debonnair Dick 1892; Bachelors to the rescue 1894, 2 ed. 1894; while lieut. Constantine Palæologus of 29 Punjaub infantry was driving her in a tandem in Hyde park on 12 April 1894 the horses bolted and she was thrown out, she was taken to St. George’s hospital and _d._ of a fracture of the skull 13 April. PATULLO, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin about 1806; a grocer in Dundee; emigrated to New York about 1830; a liquor seller in New York especially of Scotch whiskey, became known as ‘The whiskey punch king’; left a fortune of half a million dollars. _d._ New York Sept. 1868. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 317–8. PATULLO, JAMES BRODIE. Ensign 30 foot 24 April 1840, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; present at Alma and Inkermann. _killed_ in the storming of Sebastopol 8 Sept. 1855. PATY, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (son of William Paty of Bristol). _b._ 1788; ensign 32 foot 28 April 1804, captain 28 April 1808, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; served in Copenhagen 1807, and in the Peninsula 1811–14; major 96 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on h.p. 9 June 1825; lieut. col. 94 foot 11 June 1826 to 31 Dec. 1841, when placed on h.p.; granted distinguished service reward 1 April 1848; col. 70 foot 8 May 1854 to death; general 14 March 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.H. 1832. _d._ 24 Regent st. London 8 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 523 (1868). PAUL, HAMILTON. _b._ Parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 10 April 1773; educ. Glasgow univ.; partner in a printing establishment at Ayr; edited the Ayr Advertiser 3 years; licensed to preach by the presbytery 16 July 1800, assistant at Coylton 1800; minister of Broughton, Kilbucho, and Glenholm, Peebleshire 1813 to death; author of Paul’s first and second epistles to the dearly beloved the female disciples or female students of natural philosophy in Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1800; Vaccination, or beauty preserved 1805; edited The works of Robert Burns 1819. _d._ Broughton 28 Feb. 1854. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland i_ 498–500 (1876). PAUL, ISABELLA, stage name of Isabella Hill (dau. of George Thomas Hill, leather merchant). _b._ Dartford, Kent 1833; educ. France and Italy; had a contralto voice ranging from A in the bass clef to A in alt.; first appeared in London as Isabella Featherstone at Strand theatre, playing captain Macheath in the Beggar’s opera March 1853; Lucy Lockit in Beggar’s opera Strand 5 May 1853; Juana in Mark Lemon’s Paula Lazarro Drury Lane 9 Jany. 1854; appeared at Wallack’s theatre, New York 10 Sept. 1855; acted Sir Launcelot de Lake in the Lancashire witches Lyceum 3 July 1858; _m._ 13 July 1854 at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London G. Henry Howard Paul, actor and dramatist, _b._ Philadelphia, U.S. of America 16 Nov. 1835 (son of Stephen Carmick Paul); they gave entertainments in London and the provinces from 1860, in which she imitated Sims Reeves, Henry Russell and other vocalists; gave an entertainment, Ripples on the Lake, Strand 2 Sept. 1867; she played Lady Macbeth and Hecate in Macbeth at Drury Lane Feb. 1869, and Mistigris in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; sang in comic opera in Paris; played the title role in Offenbach’s Grand Duchess at the Olympic 20 June 1868, and in Paris in a French version; played Little Gil Blas in Farnie’s extravaganza Little Gil Blas at Princess’s 24 Dec. 1870; toured the provinces with a company of her own in an entertainment 1873; played Lady Sangazure in W. S. Gilbert’s The Sorcerer at Opera Comique 17 Nov. 1877; taken ill while performing in The crisis at Sheffield 30 May 1879. _d._ 17 The Avenue, Bedford park, Turnham Green, London 6 June 1879. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 11 June. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 414; _The Period 14 Jany. 1871 p._ 15 _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news vi_ 561 (1867) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news ii_ 489, 491 (1875) _portrait_, _xi_ 302, 305 (1879) _portrait_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 107, 721; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 678 (1888); _The Era 1 June 1879 p._ 9, _15 June p._ 12. PAUL, JOHN. Presbyterian minister, Maybole; minister of St. Cuthbert’s or West Kirk, Edinb. 17 April 1827 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 27 April 1847; moderator of the general assembly 20 May 1847; author of The miraculous propagation of the gospel 1834. _d._ 4 Nov. 1883. PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 1 Baronet (elder son of John Paul, M.D. of Salisbury, _d._ 15 June 1815). _b._ 25 Dec. 1775; educ. Westminster 1787, king’s scholar 1788; exhibited 20 landscapes at the R.A. 1802–37; partner in Snow, Strahan, Paul and co., bankers, which became Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, 218 Strand, London; baronet by patent dated 3 Sept. 1821; created D.C.L. Oxf. 13 June 1834; author of Journal of a party of pleasure in Paris 1802, 2 ed. 1814; The former times, an address by A Norfolk Independent whig 1820; Rouge et noir, Versailles, and other poems 1821 anon.; The man of ton, a satire 1828 anon.; Joseph, a poem 1840; Ruth, a poem, 1841; The country doctor’s horse, a tale 1847. _d._ Hill house, Stroud 16 Jany. 1852. PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 218 Strand, London 27 Oct. 1802; educ. Westminster 1811 and Eton 1817; partner in Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, bankers and navy agents of 217 Strand, London 1828, which suspended payment 11 June 1855; Strahan, Paul and Bates, the partners in the firm, signed and handed in to the court of bankruptcy a list of securities amounting to £113,625 belonging to their clients but which had been fraudulently sold or deposited by them; they were indicted at the Old Bailey 26 Oct. 1855 for converting to their own use Danish bonds value £5,000 belonging to John Griffith, canon of Rochester, they were found guilty and sentenced to transportation for 14 years 27 Oct.; the debts proved against the firm amounted to three quarters of a million, the business was taken over by the London and Westminster bank; released from Woking prison 23 Oct. 1859; lived at Lower Lancing, Shoreham, Sussex 1861–7; a wine merchant at Wheathampstead near St. Albans 1867 to death; illustrated his father’s book The country doctor’s horse 1847; author of Harmonies of scripture and short lessons for young christians 1846; Bible illustrations, or the harmony of the old and new testament 1855; A.B.C. of fox-hunting, consisting of twenty six coloured illustrations by the late sir John Dean Paul, bart. 1871. _d._ St. Albans 7 Sept. 1868. _D. M. Evans’s Facts, failures and frauds_ (1859) 106–53; _Price’s Handbook of London bankers_ (1876) 128–30; _P. Fitzgerald’s Chronicles of Bow st. ii_ 244–51 (1888); _Diprose’s St. Clement’s i_ 108, 249, 315 (1868). NOTE.--His grandnephew Wentworth Francis Dean Paul (2 son of Sir Edward John Dean Paul, 4 baronet), _b._ 26 Nov. 1870; one of the best four-in-hand whips in England or America, took first prize for driving a team at the Chicago world’s fair 1893; much dejected owing to his debts; _poisoned himself_ with prussic acid at Bath hotel, Piccadilly, London 20 Dec. 1893. PAUL, MATTHEW COMBE. _b._ 1791; entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 23 Feb. 1807, captain 9 Nov. 1818; major 9 N.I. 11 April 1828 to 19 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 9 N.I. 31 March 1835 to 2 Feb. 1845; col. of 29 N.I. 2 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 17 May