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1890. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. _bur._ the Priory
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church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub._ (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; _Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p._ 348.
PARSONS, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal
N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May
1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18
N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846
to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany.
1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July
1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53;
col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death;
commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18
March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of
France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree
war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign
and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. _d._ Almorah,
N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.
PARSONS, JAMES (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational
minister 1762–1833). _b._ Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the
academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at
Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York,
opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman
of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the
Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society
1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of
Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827;
Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of
his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. _d._ York 20
Oct. 1877. _bur._ York 26 Oct. _The lamps of the temple_, _3
ed._ (1856) 282–323; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 332–5;
_Congregational magazine_ (1831) 229–40; _Congregationalist_
(1877) 748–53; _The Pulpit v_ (1826) _portrait and xvi_ 250–2,
365; _E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials_ (1878)
343–80.
PARSONS, JOHN MEESON (youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport,
Shropshire). _b._ Newport 27 Oct. 1798; a member of the Stock
exchange, London; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1839; a director of London and
Brighton railway company 9 Feb. 1843 to 21 Aug. 1848, chairman
19 June 1843 to 11 April 1844; a director of the Shropshire
union railway 1845–9; resided at 6 Raymond buildings, Gray’s
inn to 1869; collected a gallery of pictures of the German and
Dutch schools and of water-colour drawings by English artists;
bequeathed 92 oil and 47 water-colour paintings to South
Kensington museum 1870; he also gave three pictures to the
National gallery, and many fine engravings to British Museum.
_d._ 45 Russell sq. Bloomsbury, London 25 March 1870. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 252–3 (1871).
PARSONS, NEEDHAM THOMPSON. _b._ 1 Nov. 1826; ensign 1 European
Bengal fusiliers 26 July 1845; captain 101 foot 12 March 1858,
major 15 Sept. 1869; lieut.-col. 103 foot 24 July 1872, placed
on h.p. 8 Dec. 1877; lieut.-col. regimental district 19 Dec.
1877 to 19 Dec. 1882; honorary M.G. 17 Nov. 1883; served in the
Burmese war 1852–3, the Indian mutiny 1857, and the Indian north
west frontier war 1863. _d._ Isle of Man 7 Aug. 1895.
PARSONS, PERCIVAL MOSES (son of John Parsons of Seraptoft house,
Leics.) _b._ London 1819; under chief engineer Portsmouth
dockyard 1834–6; articled to Braithwaite, Milner & co. 1836–40;
engaged laying out Eastern counties’ railway 1841–5; an engineer
in London from 1850; invented improved switches and axle-boxes;
connected with the Permanent way co.; designed a central railway
station for London on north bank of the Thames, near Charing
Cross 1853; patented an invention for rifled cannon which
had occupied him 8 years; patented improved bolts Feb. 1867;
engineer to the Bessemer steel and ordnance co. 1871; invented
white brass for shaft bearings, and manganese bronze for
propellers; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1873; took out 52 patents 1851–89;
author of Proposed London railway 1853; Guns versus armour
plates 1863. _d._ Melbourne house, Blackheath, Kent 5 Nov. 1892.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxi_ 385–9 (1893).
PART, JAMES. _b._ Wigan 1809; apprentice to Christopher Morris
of Wigan; educ. St. Bartholomew’s, Aldersgate sch. and Univ.
coll.; L.S.A. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1854; F.M.C. and
C.S. 1851; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1860; surgeon Artists’ annuity fund
soc.; president North London medical soc.; author of Medical and
surgical case book. _d._ 89 Camden road, London 1 Oct. 1875.
_Lancet 24 Dec. 1875 p._ 931; _Proc. of royal Med. and Chir.
soc. viii_ 71 (1875).
PARTINGTON, CHARLES FREDERICK. Lecturer on modern improvements
in mechanics and on other subjects at mechanics’ institutions;
published Lectures on select subjects in mechanics and
hydrostatics by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present
state of science 1825; The century of inventions by the Marquis
of Worcester, with notes and a biographical memoir 1825; edited
The scientific gazette July 1825 to 4 Feb. 1826; edited with
Wm. Newton the second series of The London journal of arts and
sciences, 9 vols. 1834–42; edited with other authors The British
cyclopædia of arts and sciences, 10 vols. 1835–8; author of An
historical and descriptive account of the steam engine 1822, 3
ed. 1826; A brief account of the royal gardens, Vauxhall 1822; A
manual of natural and experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 1828; The
builder’s complete guide 1852; he was living in 1857.
PARTON, JAMES. _b._ Canterbury 9 Feb. 1822; taken to America
1827; a teacher in Philadelphia and New York; a contributor to
the Home journal 3 years; a public lecturer; resided in New York
to 1875, then at Newbury Port, Massachusetts; _m._ Jany. 1856
Sarah Payson Willis (1811–72) widow of Charles H. Eldredge,
she became a well known author under the name of Fanny Fern;
he was the author of The life of Horace Greeley 1855; General
Butler in New Orleans 1864; The life of Aaron Burr 1861; Life
of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1864; Life of J. J. Astor 1865;
Famous Americans of recent time 1867; Eminent Women of the age
1868; People’s Book of biography 1869; Life of Thomas Jefferson
1874; Caricature and other comic art in all times 1877; The
humorous poetry from Chaucer to Saxe 1881; Life of Voltaire, 2
vols. 1881; Life of Andrew Jackson, 3 vols. 1883. _d._ Newbury
port, Massachusetts 17 Oct. 1891. _Appleton’s American Biog. iv_
665–6 (1888) _portraits of J. and S. P. Parton_.
PARTRIDGE, JOHN (son of Samuel Partridge). _b._ Glasgow 28
Feb. 1790; pupil of Thomas Phillips, R.A. about 1814; studied
in France and Italy 1823–7; a fashionable portrait painter
in London 1827; painted portraits of the queen and prince
Albert 1840; portrait painter extraordinary to the queen 1842;
exhibited 72 pictures at R.A. and 58 at B.I. 1815–61; presented
to the National portrait gallery 1872 his picture entitled
Meeting of the fine art commission at Gwydyr house, Whitehall in
the year 1846; author of On the constitution and management of
the royal academy 1864. _d._ 60 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London
25 Nov. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1873) 44.
PARTRIDGE, RICHARD. _b._ 19 Jany. 1805; apprenticed to his uncle
W. H. Partridge of Birmingham 1821–7; entered St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1827; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council
1852, examiner 1854, Hunterian orator 1865, and president 1866;
L.S.A. 1827; demonstrator of anatomy at Kings’ college, London
1831–6, professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy 1836 to
death; assistant surgeon to Charing Cross hospital 23 Dec. 1836,
surgeon 8 Jany. 1838 to 13 April 1840; surgeon to Kings’ college
hospital 13 April 1840 to 1870; F.R.S. 23 Feb. 1837; professor
of anatomy at the royal academy 1853 to death; fellow of royal
Med. and Chir. soc. of London 1828, secretary 1832–6, member of
council 1837–8 and 1861–2, vice-pres. 1847–8, president 1863–4.
_d._ 18 Wimpole st. London 25 March 1873. _Illust. times 4 Oct.
1869 p._ 369 _portrait_; _Lancet 29 March 1873 pp._ 456, 464.
NOTE.--The body of the murdered Italian boy Carlo Ferrari was brought
to Kings’ coll. hospital for dissection, and it was through Partridge’s
astuteness that the murderers Bishop and Williams were arrested, and
executed 5 Dec. 1831.
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).
NOTE.--He acquired great reputation as a settlement lawyer, raising the
most ingenious points and arguing them with such pertinacity, that the
act for regulating appeals which gave the court the power of amendment
was jocosely called in Westminster Hall “An act for the better
suppression of Pashley” about 1850.
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.
NOTE.--Mr. Lent sold her body to Dr. Suckaloff for £500, who embalmed
it so naturally that Lent thought he could make a fortune by exhibiting
it and gave the doctor £800 for it, but the authorities would not allow
him to show it in Russia; he exhibited it at the Burlington gallery,
191 Piccadilly, London in March 1862.
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
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