Chapter LXIII: Part 63
PATE, ROBERT (son of Robert Francis Pate of Wisbeach, sheriff
of Cambs. 1848). Cornet 10 hussars 5 Feb. 1841, lieut. 22 July
1842, sold out March 1846; struck the Queen on the head with
his cane, outside Cambridge house, 94 Piccadilly 27 May 1850,
sentenced at central criminal court to 7 years’ transportation
11 July 1850; resided Hobart Town, Tasmania. _d._ Broughton,
Ross road, South Norwood, Surrey 6 Feb. 1895, will proved for
£22,464. _A.R._ (1850) 73, 331–9; _Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 93
(1884).
PATER, WALTER HORATIO (younger son of Richard Glode Pater of
Shadwell, London, physician). _b._ Shadwell 4 Aug. 1839; educ.
at Enfield and King’s school, Canterbury; entered Queen’s
college, Oxford as a commoner 11 June 1858; B.A. 1862, M.A.
1865; fellow of Brasenose college 1864, junior dean 1866, tutor
1867–83, dean 1871, lecturer 1873; wrote an essay on Winckelmann
in the Westminster Review Jany. 1867, which made him famous;
wrote essays in the Fortnightly Review and other periodicals;
is caricatured by W. H. Mallock in his novel The new republic,
2 vols. 1877, under the name of Mr. Rose; author of Studies
in the history of the renaissance 1873, 2 ed. called The
renaissance 1877, 4th thousand 1888; Marius the epicurean 1885,
2 ed. 2 vols. 1892; Imaginary portraits 1887; Appreciations,
with an essay on style 1889; Plato and Platonism 1893; The child
in the house, an imaginary portrait 1894. _d._ 64 St. Giles’s,
Oxford 30 July 1894. _bur._ St. Giles’s cemet. Oxford 2 Aug.,
his sisters Hester and Clara Pater were granted civil list
pensions of £50 each 8 Jany. 1895. _W. H. Pater’s Greek Studies,
a series of essays_ (1895) _portrait; Contemporary Review Dec.
1894 pp._ 795–810; _I.L.N. 4 Aug. 1894 p._ 135 _portrait_;
_Westminster Budget 3 Aug. 1894 p._ 21 _portrait_.
PATERSON, ADAM (son of rev. Mr. Paterson). _b._ Kinghorn manse,
Flint-shire 8 March 1811; educ. St. Andrew’s univ. LL.D. 1871;
partner in firm of H. and R. Moncrieff, writers, Glasgow 1837 to
death; defended some of directors of Western bank of Scotland
1857; dean of faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1870–5; member of
Soc. of Sons of the clergy 1848 to death, and president 1858;
a royal comr. on the Scotch courts of justice 1878, issued 5
reports. _d._ Springhall, Rutherglen, near Glasgow 1 July 1881.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 261–2 (1886) _portrait_; _Law Times
lxxi_ 254 (1881).
PATERSON, EMMA ANNE (dau. of Henry Smith 1808–64, head master
of the schools of St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London).
_b._ London 5 April 1848; a German and Italian scholar;
assistant secretary of the Workmen’s club and institute union
1867–72; secretary of the Women’s suffrage association Feb.
1872, resigned 1873; visited America 1873; founded the Women’s
protective and provident league 8 July 1874, honorary secretary
to death, attended many annual conferences; contributed to
the Labour News 1874; a delegate to the trade union congress
at Glasgow, being the first female delegate 1875; edited
the Women’s union journal, a monthly record of the league
proceedings, started Feb. 1876, and wrote greater part of the
contents; founded the Women’s printing society at Westminster
1876; _m._ 24 July 1873 Thomas Paterson 1828–1852; she _d._
at her lodgings in Great college st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1856.
_bur._ in Paddington cemet. Willesden 6 Dec. _The Woman’s union
journal Dec. 1886 pp._ 111–18; _Englishwoman’s Rev. Dec. 1886
pp._ 540–3.
PATERSON, JAMES (son of James Paterson, farmer at Struthers,
Ayrshire). _b._ Struthers 18 March 1805; apprenticed to a
printer at Kilmarnock; stationer and printer at Kilmarnock
1826–35; Dublin correspondent of the Glasgow Liberator 1835;
wrote at Edinburgh the letter-press for Kay’s Edinburgh
portraits 1837–9; edited the Ayr Observer 1839–46; author
of The contemporaries of Burns and the more recent poets of
Ayrshire 1840; History of the county of Ayr 1847; Memoir of
James Fillans, sculptor 1854; Origin of the Scots and of the
Scottish language 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Wallace and his times 1858,
4 ed. 1870. _d._ Edinburgh 26 May 1876. _James Paterson’s
Autobiographical reminiscences_ (1871) _portrait_.
PATERSON, JAMES (3 son of Alexander Paterson of Janefield,
Lauder, Berwickshire). _b._ 1823: barrister M.T. 24 May 1850;
author of The wine and beer house act 1869–70, with notes 1870;
The bastardy laws amendment act 1872, 1873; The intoxicating
liquor acts 1872; Commentaries on the liberty of the subject,
2 vols. 1877–8; The liberty of the press, speech, and public
worship 1880; Notes on the law of master and servant 1885. _d._
10 Hyde park mansions, London 10 Dec. 1894.
PATERSON, JOHN (3 child of George Paterson of Duntocher, near
Glasgow). _b._ Duntocher 26 Feb 1776; educ. univ. of Glasgow
1798; a preacher under the rev. Robert Haldane; congregational
missionary in Denmark 1804–7, at Stockholm 1807–12, at St.
Petersburgh 1812; conducted the affairs of the Russian bible
society 1822–5; served at Edinburgh as secretary for Scotland
of the London missionary society many years; chairman of the
committee of the Congregational union; doctor of theology univ.
of Abo in Finland 1 Nov. 1817; author of The book for every
land, reminiscences of labour in the work of bible circulation
in the North of Europe and in Russia, edited by W. L. Alexander
1858, memoir pp. xi–xxxv. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 6 July
1855. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 162–4.
PATERSON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1775; ensign 28 foot 17 May 1779;
captain 77 foot 7 May 1807; major York chasseurs 29 Sept. 1814,
placed on h.p. 14 Dec. 1819; lieut.-col. on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825;
lieut.-col. rifle brigade 1 Jany. 1838 to 6 Feb. 1839, when
placed on h.p.; colonel commandant of 60 rifles 14 April 1857 to
death; a cavalry volunteer in Irish rebellion 1798; served in
Egypt 1801, in the Peninsula 1811–14, also in the West Indies
and Canada; L.G. 26 Aug. 1858. _d._ at the residence of his
niece Lower Baggot st. Dublin 31 March 1863.
PATERSON, NATHANIEL (eld. son of Walter Paterson,
stone-engraver). _b._ parish of Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire 1787;
educ. univ. of Edinb.; church of Scotland minister of Galashiels
1821–33; minister of St. Andrew’s parish church, Glasgow
1833–43; minister of free St. Andrew’s, Glasgow 1844 to death;
moderator of the free church assembly 1850; author of The Manse
Garden 1836, 9th thousand 1860. _d._ Glasgow 25 April 1871.
_Letters to his family by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., with memoir
by Rev. Alexander Anderson_ (1874).
PATERSON, NOEL HUNTINGDON (son of John Paterson, commander
R.N., of Calcutta and Camberwell, London). _b._ London 14 June
1844; educ. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1853–63; exhibitioner of
Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1863, resigned to take Stuart exhibition at
St. John’s coll. 1863; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1872; barrister M.T.
17 Nov. 1869; went south eastern circuit; published A manual
of the usages of the stock exchange 1870; edited Woolrych’s
Metropolitan building acts, 2 ed. 1877; assisted in editing
Wharton’s Law lexicon, 6 ed. 1876. _killed_ by an accident on
the Lyskamm, near Zermatt 6 Sept. 1877. _bur._ at Zermatt 10
Sept. _Law Times lxiii_ 353 (1877).
PATERSON, THOMAS (son of Robert Paterson of Plewlands,
Ayrshire). _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1795, col. commandant
15 Aug. 1850 to death; served in Canada and West Indies
1796–1804, in expedition to Copenhagen 1807, and in Walcheren
expedition 1809; superintendent of royal military repository at
Woolwich 1836–46; L.G. 30 June 1854. _d._ Woolwich 13 June 1856.
PATERSON, THOMAS (son of a cabinet maker in London). _b._ Elgin
1828; a cabinet maker and wood carver in London; a political
economist; member of council of Women’s protective and provident
league 1874; hon. sec. Clerkenwell Working men’s club 1863;
hon. sec. of Working men’s club and Institute union 1866,
vice-chairman of the council; member of council of Workmen’s
Peace association to death; with Auberon Herbert and J. W.
Probyn organised the Workmen’s international exhibition at
Agricultural hall, London 1870; much engaged in endeavouring to
improve the education and prosperity of the working classes.
_d._ 2 Queen sq. place, Bloomsbury, London 15 Oct. 1882. _bur._
Paddington cemet. Willesden 19 Oct. _T. Paterson’s A new method
of mental science_ (1886) _memoir pp. i–viii_; _The women’s
union journal Nov. 1882 pp._ 89–90.
PATERSON, THOMAS VARLEY. _b._ 1811; author and journalist in
England and America; author of How to get money quickly or
thirty ways of making a fortune 1868; The art of living or good
advice for the young and old 1875. _d._ 35 Harrison st. Gray’s
Inn road, London 2 Feb. 1880.
PATERSON, WILLIAM (son of a market gardener). _b._ Shepherd’s
Loan, Dundee; assisted in his father’s business; experimented
in raising new varieties of potatoes from 1853; produced the
new varieties known as Paterson’s Seedlings, which since 1860
have been extensively cultivated, not only in the United
Kingdom but also on the Continent, in America and Australasia;
awarded silver medal of Manchester and Liverpool agricultural
society and gold medal of Highland and agricultural society of
Scotland; received medal of the Erfurt society and their diploma
of honour. _d._ 3 Jany. 1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_
(1873) 352.
PATESHALL, EVAN (youngest son of David Thomas of Welfield,
Radnor). _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; educ. Shrewsbury and King’s coll.
London; M.P. Hereford 1874–8; _m._ 1842 Anne Elizabeth, only
child of William Pateshall of Hereford, and assumed name of
Pateshall 1855. _d._ Allensmore court, Hereford 9 April 1885.
PATEY, CHARLES GEORGE EDWARD (son of Charles Patey, commander
R.N.). _b._ 1811; entered navy 20 Jany. 1824, commander 4 Nov.
1840; commanded the Resistance troopship March 1842 to 18
May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; organized the emigration from
Liverpool to Australia 1851 and was head emigration officer at
Liverpool to 1852 when he received a testimonial; captain of
the Amphion at Sheerness Dec. 1852 to 1853; emigration officer
at Plymouth 1855–7; superintendent of the packet service at
Southampton 1857–64; administrator at Lagos 1866, at the Gambia
Oct. 1866; governor of St. Helena 6 Dec. 1869, retired on
abolition of the office 1873; C.M.G. 8 May 1874; retired admiral
1 Aug. 1877. _d._ Newton St. Loe, near Bath 25 March 1881.
_I.L.N. xxii_ 181 (1853), _view of testimonial plate_.
PATEY, CHARLES HENRY BENNET (son of preceding). _b._ 1844;
clerk in secretary’s office, Post office, London 1863; actively
employed in purchasing the telegraphic lines from the railway
companies 1868 etc.; assist. sec. to post office 1877; third
sec. 1882; conducted negotiations for taking over telephones
from private companies 1881; re-organised the department on
introduction of sixpenny telegrams 1883; attended International
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
1829. _d._ 20 Feb. 1859. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc.
xvi_ 168 (1860).
PATTEN, GEORGE (son of Wm. Patten, miniature-painter, _d._
1843). _b._ 29 June 1801; student at the R.A. 1816; painted
miniatures 1819–30, and portraits and historical pictures
1830 to death; A.R.A. 1837; portrait painter in ordinary to
the prince consort; painted the only portrait of Paganini,
the violinist, exhibited at the R.A. 1833; exhibited his own
portrait at the R.A. 1858; painted mythological, fancy, and
scriptural subjects; exhibited 131 pictures at R.A. and 16 at
Suffolk st. 1819–64. _d._ Hill house, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
11 March 1865. _bur._ St. James’s churchyard, Friern, Barnet.
_Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 211 (1862).
PATTERSON, ALEXANDER SIMPSON (son of Robert Paterson of
Crofthouse, Alnwick). Licensed by presbytery of Dunbar 5 Dec.
1822; minister at Whitehaven 3 May 1837; elected by Glasgow
church building soc. 11 March 1839, served to 28 June 1843;
called to the Free church, St. Andrews 1847; minister of
Hutchesonton free church, Hospital st. Glasgow to death; edited
The Imperial illustrated bible 1858; The self-explanatory
family bible 1859; Illustrated family bible 1876; author of
A brief commentary on the First epistle to the Thessalonians
1846; A commentary on the Hebrews 1856; Commentaries on the
First epistle to the Thessalonians, the Epistle of James, and
the First epistle of John 1857; Poets and preachers of the
nineteenth century 1862; The Redeemer and the redemption,
discourses 1865; Sketches in verse of a continental tour 1866.
_d._ 1885. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 238–44; _H.
Scott’s Fasti ii_, _part_ 1 _p._ 48.
PATTERSON, SIR JAMES BROWN (youngest son of James Patterson,
district road inspector). _b._ Alnwick, Northumberland 18 Nov.
1833; went to Forest Creek goldfields, Victoria 1852; member for
Castlemaine of legislative assembly of Victoria 1871 to death;
comr. of public works and vice-president of the board of land
and works 23 Aug. to 20 Oct. 1875 and 28 May 1877 to March 1880;
postmaster general July 1878 to March 1880 and Sept. to Nov.
1890; minister of railways Aug. 1880 to July 1881; minister of
customs Feb. 1889 to Sept. 1890; minister of public works June
to Sept. 1890; K.C.M.G. 26 May 1894. _d._ Melbourne 30 Oct.
1895. _I.L.N. 9 Feb. 1895 p._ 574 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 12
July 1893 p._ 4 _portrait_.
PATTERSON, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Patterson, merchant). _b._
Belfast 18 April 1802; apprenticed to his father’s business
1818; one of the 8 founders of the Natural history society of
Belfast 1821, president many years; an early member of British
association, one of the secretaries of the natural history
section 1839–44; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; one of the Belfast harbour
comrs. 1858–70; author of Letters on the insects mentioned in
Shakespeare’s plays 1838; Introduction to zoology 1848; First
steps to zoology 1849; Patterson’s Zoological diagrams 1859.
_d._ 6 College sq. North, Belfast 14 Feb. 1872.
PATTERSON, ROBERT. _b._ Cappagh, co. Tyrone 12 Jany. 1792; taken
to Delaware county, Pennsylvania 1798; served in the war of
1812 as first lieut. of infantry; major general of volunteers
in the Mexican war; commanded the Pennsylvania militia; M.G. of
volunteers in the civil war 15 April to 27 July 1861; one of the
largest mill-owners in the United States; president of board
of trustees of Lafayette college; author of A narrative of the
campaign in the valley of the Shenandoah 1865. _d._ Philadelphia
7 Aug. 1881. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 673 (1888)
_portrait_.
PATTERSON, ROBERT HOGARTH. _b._ Edinburgh Dec. 1821;
press-corrector in John Ballantyne’s printing office; edited the
Edinburgh Advertiser 1852–8; editor in London of The Press 1858,
afterwards proprietor; edited The Globe newspaper 1865–9; member
of board of referees appointed by parliament to investigate
and report upon the best means of purification of coal-gas in
London 1869 to death; edited in Glasgow the Glasgow News 1872–4;
F.S.S., member of council; author of The new revolution, or
the Napoleonic policy in Europe 1860; Essays in history and
art 1862; The economy of capital, or gold and trade 1865; The
science of finance 1868; Robespierre, a lyrical drama 1877; The
new golden age and the influence of the precious metals upon
the world, 2 vols. 1882. _d._ 22 Wingate road, Hammersmith,
Middlesex 13 Dec. 1886. _Athenæum ii_ 863 (1886).
PATTERSON, WILLIAM THOMAS LAIRD (son of James Patterson of 57
Wimpole st. London). _b._ 17 Oct. 1820; ensign 91 foot 22 Feb.
1839, lieut-col. 12 Nov. 1860, placed on h.p. 16 Jany. 1869;
brigadier major in Greece 2 June 1855 to 24 Dec. 1855; assistant
adjutant general Cork district 1 July 1870 to 30 June 1875;
lieut.-col. 88 foot 23 Oct. 1875, placed on h.p. 18 Dec. 1875;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._
2 April 1889.
PATTESON, SIR JOHN (2 son of rev. Henry Patteson of Drinkstone,
Suffolk). _b._ Coney Weston, Suffolk 11 Feb. 1790; educ. at Eton
1802–8; scholar of King’s coll. Camb. 1809, fellow 1812, B.A.
1813, M.A. 1816; the first Davies univ. scholar 1810; student
at Middle Temple 1813, barrister 6 July 1821; began practice
as a special pleader 1821; one of the legal comrs. on the
reform of the Welsh judicature 1829; judge of court of king’s
bench 12 Nov. 1830, resigned 10 Feb. 1852, when presented with
a testimonial by the Metropolitan common law clerks 30 June;
knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; P.C. 2
Feb. 1852, member of the judicial committee; a comr. to examine
into the state of the city of London July 1853; arbitrator in
disputes between the crown and duchy of Cornwall, between the
post office and the Great Western railway, and between the
university and town of Cambridge; edited Sir E. Saunders’ The
reports of cases in the king’s bench, 5 ed. 1824, another ed.
1845. _d._ Feniton court, Honiton, Devon 28 June 1861. _bur._
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
1859. _d._ 43 Harewood sq. London 7 Jany. 1865.
PAUL, ROBERT (son of Wm. Paul, pastor of the West Kirk, Edinb.
1754–1802). _b._ Edinburgh 15 May 1788; educ. Edinb. univ.;
clerk in Commercial bank, Edinb. 1807, secretary 1823, manager
to 1853, then a director to death; joined the Free church
disruption 1843, an elder under Dr. R. S. Candlish at St.
George’s ch. Edinb. 1843; assisted in promoting the theological
college and library, the Soc. for training the children of
ministers and missionaries, and the Orphan hospital; author of
The finest of wheat, extracts from the writings of the older
divines 1849; Memoir of rev. James Martin. _d._ Kirkland lodge,
near Edinb. 16 July 1866. _R. Bell’s Memoir of R. Paul_ (1872)
_portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 429–34.
PAUL, ROBERT BATEMAN (eld. son of Richard Paul, rector of
Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall, _d._ 7 Dec. 1805). _b._ St.
Columb-Major, Cornwall 21 March 1798; educ. Truro gr. sch.
and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1817 to 11 Jany. 1827,
bursar and tutor 1825; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; public examiner
in classics 1826–7; C. of Probus, Cornwall to Jany. 1824; V.
of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1825–9; V. of Llantwit-Major with
Llyswarney, Glamorganshire 1829–35; V. of St. John, Kentish
Town, London 1845–8; V. of St. Augustine, Bristol 1848–51; went
to New Zealand 1851; archdeacon of Waimea or Nelson 1855–60;
R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1864–72; prebendary of Lincoln 1867
to death; confrater of Browne’s hospital, Stamford 1868 to
death; author of An analysis of Aristotle’s ethics 1829, 2 ed.
1837; An analysis of Aristotle’s rhetoric 1830; Journal of a
tour to Moscow 1836; History of Germany 1847; Some account
of the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand 1854; Letters from
Canterbury 1857; New Zealand as it was and as it is 1861; The
autobiography of a Cornish rector. By the late James Hamley
Tregenna [pseudonym] 2 vols. 1872; published many editions of
the plays of Sophocles and translations of German handbooks on
subjects of geography and antiquities. _d._ Barnhill Stamford
6 June 1877. _bur._ Little Casterton churchyard 9 June. _Boase
and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 431–3, _iii_ 1303 (1874–82);
_Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 662, 1394–5.
PAUL, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; ensign
5 Bengal N.I. 6 Oct. 1801, captain 16 Dec. 1814; major 20 N.I.
22 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 30 July 1828, col. 9 July 1840 to
death; general 22 Nov. 1862. _d._ 4 Melcombe place, Dorset sq.
London 11 June 1866.
PAUL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1810; connected with journalism from 1834;
proprietor of The Chronicle of Convocation 1859 till it was
remodelled by lower house of convocation; edited the Railway
Times to 1881. _d._ at his house, West Kensington, London 12
April 1884. _Railway Times 19 April 1884 p._ 496.
PAUL, WILLIAM (son of rev. William Paul, professor of natural
philosophy, Aberdeen). _b._ Manse of Marycutter 27 Sept
1804; M.A. Aberdeen 1822, D.D. 1853; assistant minister of
Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeen 1826, minister 1834 to death; author
of Analysis of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1852; The scriptural
account of creation vindicated by the teaching of science 1870;
Past and present of Aberdeenshire 1881. _d._ Banchory-Devenish
manse, end of April 1884. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 2,
_p._ 494 (1871).
PAULET, FREDERICK (5 son of 13 Marquess of Winchester
1765–1843). _b._ 12 May 1810; ensign Coldstream guards 11 June
1826, lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 13 Dec. 1860; M.G. 13 Dec.
1860; col. 32 foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death; comptroller of the
household and equerry to the duchess of Cambridge 1867 to death;
L.G. 12 Feb. 1870; officer of the legion of honour 1856; C.B. 29
Dec. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 1 March 1860.
_d._ D2 the Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1871.
PAULET, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ Rupert house,
Southampton 12 Aug. 1803; educ. royal naval college; embarked 18
Dec. 1819; captain 18 Nov. 1833, R.A. 21 July 1856, V.A. 3 April
1863, admiral 20 March 1867; the king of the Sandwich islands
having offered indignities to British subjects, the islands
were ceded to Paulet in Feb. 1843, but restored 31 July 1843;
commanded Bellerophon 7 Nov. 1850 to 1855; aide-de-camp to the
queen 22 Sept. 1854 to 21 July 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ 21
Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Nov. 1879.
PAULET, SIR HENRY CHARLES, 1 Baronet (1 son of vice-admiral
lord Henry Paulet 1767–1832). _b._ 1 Aug. 1814; cornet 2
dragoon guards 13 Nov. 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1839, sold out 4
Aug. 1843; cr. a baronet 18 March 1836; a verderer of the New
Forest; chairman of New Forest hunt club; often acted as a judge
of horses at agricultural shows; resided 5 St. James’ place,
London. _d._ Little Testwood, Southampton 11 Dec. 1886. _Baily’s
Mag. xlvii_ 72 (1887).
PAULET, WILLIAM (brother of George Paulet 1803–79). _b._ Amport
house, Andover, Hants 7 July 1804; educ. Eton; ensign 85 foot
1 Feb. 1821; major 68 foot 18 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 21 April
1843, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1847; assistant adjutant-general
of the cavalry division in the Crimea 8 March to 18 Nov. 1854;
served at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commandant at Scutari
19 Nov. 1854 to 18 Jany. 1855; was in command on the Bosphorus
at Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 19 Jany. 1855 to 9 Sept. 1855;
commanded the light division in the Crimea; commanded the first
brigade at Aldershot 1856–60, and the south-western district
1860–5; adjutant general of the forces 1 July 1865 to 30 Sept.
1870; colonel of 87 foot 27 July 1863, and of 68 foot 9 April
1864 to death; general 7 Oct. 1874, field-marshal 10 July 1886;
C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._
18 St. James’ sq. London 9 May 1893. _Times 10 May 1893 p._ 5;
_Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p._ 8 _portrait_.
PAULI, GEORG REINHOLD. _b._ Berlin 25 May 1823; private sec.
to C. C. J. baron de Bunsen, Prussian ambassador in England
1852–5; professor of history at Rostock 1857, at Tubingen 1859,
at Marburg 1867, and Gottingen 1869 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 15
April 1874, hon. LL.D. Edinb. 22 April 1874; edited J. Gower’s
Confessio amantis 1857; The libell of English policye 1878;
author of The life of king Alfred, a translation revised by the
author 1852; Der Hansische Stahlhof in London, Bremen 1856; Der
Gang der internationalen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und
England, Gotha 1859; Bilder aus Alt-England 1860; Pictures of
Old England, translated by E. C. Otté 1861; Simon de Montfort,
earl of Leicester 1876. _d._ Bremen 3 June 1882. _Allgemeine
Deutsche biographie xxv_ 268–73 (1887); _F. Frensdorff’s R.
Pauli_, _Gottingen_ (1882); _The Academy 17 June 1882 p._ 433.
PAULING, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Rochester 10 March 1821; district
engineer of Wellington railway, Cape Town 1859, resident
engineer 1864; chief resident engineer of the western railways
1881; engineer in chief to Cape government railways 1885–91,
having control of 2,000 miles of lines; M.I.C.E. 4 May 1880.
_d._ Cape Town 8 Sept. 1892. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
cxii_ 359 (1893).
PAULL, JAMES. _b._ 1781; D.D. of St. Andrews 1844; minister
of College chapel of ease, Aberdeen 1804–12; minister of
Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire 1813; convenor of Supplementary
orphan fund; moderator of general assembly 1846; one of her
majesty’s chaplains in ordinary in Scotland 29 May 1852 to
death. _d._ Tullynessle 21 Oct. 1858. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3,
_part_ 2, _p._ 571 (1871).
PAULSON, HENRY. _b._ Nottingham 4 May 1819; a ballast-heaver
at Nottingham; beat Tom Paddock for £25 a side at Sedgebrook
near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851; beaten by Paddock for £50 a side
at Cross End near Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, there was a
disgraceful riot, both men were apprehended and sentenced to ten
months’ imprisonment in Derby gaol with hard labour, March 1852;
beaten by Paddock for £100 a side at Mildenhall, Suffolk 14 Feb.
1854, in 102 rounds lasting 152 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers
£50 a side at Appledore, Kent 29 Jany. 1856, in 109 rounds
lasting 3 hours and 8 minutes; beat Harry Tyson £50 a side at
Kentish Marshes 14 May 1859. _d._ at his daughter’s house,
Newmarket yard, Sneinton Market, Nottingham 11 Dec. 1890. _bur._
15 Dec. _F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 130–9; _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 277–83, 371–9 (1881); _Illust. sporting
news iii_ 261 (1861) _portrait_; _Sportsman 12 Dec. 1890 p._ 4.
PAULTON, ABRAHAM WALTER (son of Walter Paulton of Bolton,
Lancs.) _b._ Bolton 1812; educ. Stonyhurst college; apprenticed
to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton; lectured for the
anti-corn-law league 1838–9; editor at Manchester of the
Anti-corn-law circular April 1839, the title was changed to
Anti-bread-tax circular in April 1841; edited in London the
League newspaper Sept. 1843 to 1846; purchased with Henry Rawson
the Manchester Times which he edited 1848–54; great friend of
John Bright and Richard Cobden. _d._ Boughton hall, Guildford,
Surrey 6 June 1876. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Prentice’s
Anti-corn-law league i_ 64 _et seq._ (1853).
PAUMIER, MUNGO NOBLE. _b._ 1813; tragedian; first appeared
in London at Drury Lane theatre 17 May 1836 as Hamlet; acted
in many of the principal theatres in Great Britain; lessee
of Whitehaven theatre 1867–71. _d._ Castle view, Egremont,
Whitehaven, of cancer of the tongue 31 Jany. 1876. _bur._
Egremont cemet. 3 Feb. _The Era 6 Feb. 1876 p._ 5; _Cumberland
Pacquet 8 Feb. 1876 p._ 3.
PAUNCEFOTE, BERNARD (only son of Bernard Pauncefote of
Cuddalore, Madras presidency). _b._ Cuddalore 28 June 1848;
educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1870; played his
first cricket match at Lords in the match Marlborough _v._ Rugby
3 and 4 July 1865; scored 211 runs not out in a match Brasenose
_v._ Corpus at Oxford 3 June 1868; in the Oxford univ. eleven
1868–70, captain 1869–70; played in the match Gentlemen _v._
Players 1869; student at Inner Temple 9 May 1870; a merchant at
Colombo in Ceylon 1875. _d._ Blackheath, Kent 24 Sept. 1882.
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