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PATTISON, MARK (1813-1884)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 937 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PATTISON, MARK (1813-1884) , English author and
rector
  of Lincoln College, Oxford, was born on the loth of October 1813. He was the son of the
rector
  of Hauxwell, Yorkshire, and was privately educated by his father. In 1832 he matriculated at Oriel College, where he took his B.A. degree in 1836 with second-class honours. After other attempts to obtain a fellowship, he was elected in 1839 to a Yorkshire fellowship at Lincoln, an
anti
 -Puseyite College. Pattison was at this time a Puseyite, and greatly under the influence of J. H. Newman, for whom he worked, helping in the translation of
Thomas
  Aquinas's Catena Aurea, and writing in the British Critic and Christian Remembrancer. He was ordained priest in 1843, and in the same year became tutor of Lincoln College, where he rapidly made a reputation as a clear and stimulating teacher and as a sympathetic friend of youth. The management of the college was practically in his hands, and his reputation as a scholar became high in the university. In 1851 the rectorship of Lincoln became vacant, and it seemed certain that Pattison would be elected, but he lost it by a disagreeable intrigue. The disappointment was acute and his health suffered. In 1855 he resigned the tutorship,travelled in Germany to investigate Continental systems of education, and began his researches into the lives of Casaubon and Scaliger, which occupied the remainder of his life. In 1861 he was elected rector of Lincoln, marrying in the same year Emilia Francis Strong (afterwards Lady Dilke). The rector contributed largely to various reviews on literary subjects, and took a considerable
interest
  in social science, even presiding over a section at a congress in 1876. The routine of university business he avoided with contempt, and refused the vice-chancellorship. But while living the life of a student, he was fond of society, and especially of the society of women. He died at Harrogate on the 3oth of July 1884. His biography of Isaac Casaubon appeared in 1875; Milton, in Macmillan's English Men of Letters
series
  in 1879. The 18th century, alike in its literature and its theology, was a favourite study, as is illustrated by his contribution (Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-175o) to the once famous Essays and Reviews (186o), and by his edition of Pope's Essay on Man (1869), &c. His Sermons and Collected Essays, edited by
Henry
  Nettleship, were published posthumously (1889), as well as the Memoirs (1885), an auto-biography deeply tinged with melancholy and bitterness. His projected Life of Scaliger was never finished. Mark Pattison possessed an extraordinary distinction of mind. He was a true scholar, who lived entirely in the things of the intellect. He writes of himself, excusing the composition of his memoirs, that he has known little or nothing of contemporary celebrities, and that his memory is inaccurate: " All my energy was directed upon one endto improve myself, to form my own mind, to sound things thoroughly, to free myself from the bondage of unreason. . . If there is anything of
interest
  in my story, it is as a story of mental development " (Memoirs, pp. I, 2). The Memoirs is a rather morbid book, and Mark Pattison is merciless to himself throughout. It is evident that he carried rationalism in religion to an extent that seems hardly consistent with his position as a priest of the English Church.
Mark Pattison's tenth and youngest sister was Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison (1832-1878), better known as SISTER DORA, the name she took in 1864 on becoming a member of the Anglican sisterhood of the Good Samaritan at Coatham, Yorkshire. In 1865 she was sent as nurse to their cottage
hospital
 
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in Walsall, and from 1867 to 1877 she was in charge of a new
hospital
 
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there. She left the sisterhood in 1874, and their hospital in 1877, to take charge of the municipal epidemic hospital, where the cases were largely small-pox. She had meanwhile qualified herself thoroughly as a nurse and had acquired no mean skill as a surgeon. Her efforts greatly endeared her to those among whom she worked, and after her death a memorial window was erected in the parish church, and a marble portrait statue by F. J. Williamson in the principal square of Walsall.
See Margaret
Lonsdale
 's Sister Dora (1887 ed.).


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