PARTRIDGE, William (1 son of John Partridge of Monmouth). b. 2 Jany. 1818; educ. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 12 June 1840; barrister M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; stipendiary magistrate, Wolverhampton 1860–3; police magistrate at the Thames court 2 April 1863, at Southwark 1867–79, at Westminster 1879–89, at Lambeth 1889–90, and at Marylebone 1890 to death; presided in his court 29 Aug. 1891. d. The Grange, Uxbridge road, London 10 Sept. 1891. Graphic 19 Sept. 1891 p. 327 portrait; I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1891 p. 369 portrait.

PASCO, John. b. 20 Dec. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1784; lieutenant of the Victory in the Mediterranean April 1803; served at the blockade of Toulon, in the chase of the French fleet to the West Indies, and in the battle of Trafalgar, where as signal officer, he made Nelson’s famous signal England expects that every man will do his duty, severely wounded in the right arm for which he was afterwards granted pension of £250 a year; captain 3 April 1811; captain of the Rota frigate on the Lisbon station 1811–5; commanded the Victory at Portsmouth 1846; R.A. 22 Sept. 1847. d. East Stonehouse, Devon 16 Nov. 1853. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 869–70.

PASCOE, Francis Polkinghorne (only child of Wm. Pascoe of Penzance, Cornwall, d. 1817). b. Penzance 1 Sept. 1813; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1835; assistant surgeon in the navy 1836–43; resided in London 1851–91, where he formed the entomological collection, which is in the Natural history museum at South Kensington; F.L.S. June 1852; member of Entomological society of London 1854, president 1864–5; author of Zoological classification 1877, 2 ed. 1880; Hints for collecting and preserving insects 1882; The student’s list of British coleoptera 1882; Notes on natural selection and the origin of species 1884; List of British vertebrate animals 1885; Analytical lists of the orders of the animal kingdom 1886; The Darwinian theory of the origin of species 1890. d. Brighton 20 June 1893. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 427–9, iii 1302 (1882–90); Entomologists’ monthly mag. (1893) 194–6.

PASHLEY, Robert (son of Robert Pashley of Hull). b. York 4 Sept. 1805; admitted at Trin. coll. Camb. 3 May 1825, fellow 1830–53; took a double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; travelled in Greece, Asia Minor and Crete 1833; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837, bencher 1851 to death; Q.C. July 1851; contested King’s Lynn 9 July 1852; assistant judge of the Middlesex sessions 19 Jany. 1856 to death; author of Travels in Crete, 2 vols. 1837; Pauperism and poor laws 1853; Observations on the government bill for abolishing the removal of the poor 1854, 2 ed. 1854. d. 16 Manchester sq. London 29 May 1859. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4 June. G.M. vii 191 (1859); Law Times xxxiii 154, 225 (1859).

PASLEY, Charles (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Brompton barracks, Chatham, Kent 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Rochester gr. sch. and R.M. Academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1843; served in Canada and Bermuda 1846–50; on the staff of the Great Exhibition 1851; colonial engineer to the colony of Victoria 18 Sept. 1853, member of legislative council 16 Oct. 1854; comr. of public works for Victoria 25 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857, professional head of department of public works 1857–60; served in the war in New Zealand 1860, where he was wounded in the attack of the pah at Kaihihi, for which he was granted a pension of £100 per annum; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; special agent for Victoria in London 1864 to Dec. 1868; in charge of the great extension works at Chatham dockyard Oct. 1865 to 1873; secretary to the committee on designs for ships of war Dec. 1870, member of the committee May 1871, drafted the report; colonel in the army April 1876, retired as major general Aug. 1881; director of engineering works and of architecture at the admiralty Sept. 1873 to Sept. 1882; acting agent general for Victoria with title of chairman of the board of advice May 1880 to 1882; C.B. 23 April 1880. d. 7 Queen Anne’s grove, Bedford park, Chiswick 11 Nov. 1890. Royal engineer’s journal (1891); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 388–92 (1891).

PASLEY, Sir Charles William. b. Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire 8 Sept. 1780; educ. at Selkirk and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 April 1798, col. commandant 28 Nov. 1853 to death; served at the battle of Corunna, also in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege of Flushing 1809; director of the establishment for field instruction at Chatham June 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; hon. M.I.C.E. 1820; presented with freedom of city of London, for having removed the brig William and the schooner Glenmorgan from the bed of the Thames, near Gravesend in 1838; blew up wreck of the Royal George at Spithead 1839–43; formed the schools for the royal engineers and for the navy; inspector general of railways 23 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.S. 7 March 1816; general 20 Sept. 1860; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831, K.C.B. 21 Dec. 1846; author of Essay on the military policy and institutions of the British empire 1810, 4 ed. 1812; Course of instruction for use of the royal engineer department, 3 vols. 1814–7; A course of elementary fortifications, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1822; The practical operations of a siege, 2 parts 1829–32; Observations on limes, calcareous, cements, mortar, stuccos, and concretes 1838. d. 12 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 19 April 1861, portrait in royal engineers’ mess-room at Chatham. Proc. of royal society xii 20–5 (1862); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 545–50 (1862).

PASLEY, Sir Thomas Sabine, 2 Baronet (only son of colonel John Sabine of the grenadier guards 1773–1805). b. Welbeck st. London 26 Dec. 1804; succeeded his grandfather sir Thomas Pasley as baronet 29 Nov. 1808; assumed surname of Pasley by R.L. 20 March 1809; entered navy Dec. 1818; captain 24 May 1831; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1849–54; captain of the Agamemnon in the Black sea Nov. 1854 to 31 Jany. 1856; superintendent of Devonport dockyard Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1866 to 25 Feb. 1869; admiral 20 Nov. 1866; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Moorhill, Shedfield, Botley, Hampshire 13 Feb. 1884.

PASSMORE, Joseph. b. 1822; member of firm of Alabaster and Passmore, printers and publishers, 34 Wilson st. Finsbury, London 1853, Alabaster died 1891; a member of C. H. Spurgeon’s church, actively assisted in building the Tabernacle institutions and in founding the Stockwell orphanage 1867; suggested the weekly issue of Spurgeon’s Sermons 1855 and continued printing it without intermission 36 years; printed and published the whole of Spurgeon’s works 1855–95. d. at his residence in London 1 Aug. 1895. Bookseller Sept. 1895 p. 778.

PASTA, Giuditta (dau. of Mr. Negri, a Jew). b. Sarrano, near Milan 1798; had a soprano voice of two octaves and a half, from A above the bass clef note to C flat and even to D in alt.; appeared at King’s theatre, London 11 Jany. 1817 as Telemaco in Cimarosa’s Penelope; then acted Cherubino in Nozze de Figaro; appeared at King’s theatre 24 April 1824 as Desdemona and was a great success, her salary being £14,000; was also seen in London 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1831, 1837, 1850; among her parts were Tancredi, Romeo, Desdemona, Medea, Semiramide, Maria Stuarda, Niobe, Anna Bolena, and Norma; lost her fortune in the failure of Guymuller’s bank, Vienna 1841. d. at her villa at Como 1 April 1865. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii 1–32 (1863) portrait; Musical gem for 1831 p. 2 portrait.

PASTRANA, Julia, called the Nondescript; said to have been born near Copala, Mexico 1834; a servant to Pedro Sanchez, governor of the state of Sinaloa to 1854; brought to the United States April 1854 and was publicly exhibited; her nose, forehead, face, shoulders and arms were covered with thick black hair, and all her body was hairy except her bosom, hands and feet; had no apparent pupil in the eye, no cartilage in the nose; possessed double gums in her jaws, but only one row of front teeth; spoke and sang in English and Spanish, and danced the Highland fling, etc.; could sew, cook, wash and iron; 4 ft. 6 inches high and weighed 112 pounds; was exhibited at the Regent gallery 69 Quadrant, London Aug. 1857; m. Lewis B. Lent, circus manager. d. in childbirth at Moscow April 1860. Account of Miss Pastrana, London (1857) portrait; F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3 Series, ii 40–2 (1868); G. Van Hare’s Fifty years of a showman’s life (1888) 46.

PATCH, John. b. 1798; surgeon Bombay army 29 Dec. 1833; superintending surgeon in Sinde 31 March 1846 to 1848; surgeon general Bombay army 29 Aug. 1848, retired 17 Sept. 1849. d. Penzance, Cornwall 20 Aug. 1865.

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.

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).

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).