PATTISON, MARK (1813-S4). An English scholar and writer, born at Haukswt'll, York shire. He was educated at Oriel College. Ox ford (B.A., 1836; M.A., 1840). Ile translated the "Saint Matthew" from Thomas Aquinas's Ca tena A urea on the Gospels for Newman (written. 1839; printed, 1S42), and also contributed bi ographies of Stephen Langton and Saint Ed mund to the series of lives of English saints published under Newman's editorship. In 1S39 he was elected fellow of Lincoln, and in 1843 was ordained priest. He was appointed to a tutor ship of Lincoln in 1S43, and in 1848 became ex aminer in the school of Iitera• hunuiniores. In 1853 he was again appointed examiner. and in 1855 resigned his tutorship. lie was then for a time a private tutor at Oxford, but later was much in Germany. In 1861 he was elected rector of Lincoln. He also became a curator of the Bodleian Library and of the Taylor Insti tution. From 1845 his theological views great ly changed; he wrote for the Essays and Reviews (1860) an article on "Tendencies of Religious Thought in England. 1088-1750," intended as "a neutral and philosophic inquiry." and so recognized on the Continent, but not in England: and he remained a liberal member of the Angli can communion. His principal studies. however. were not theological or philosophical. lint were directed originally to the preparation of a his tory of learning from the time of the Renais sance. and later to that of the more restricted
ac•eount of the French sell mil of philology. Of this work only fragments were executed, most important of which is the Life of Isaac Casaabon (1875: 2d ed. 1S )2). Other portions appear in the selected Essays (2 vols., 1889), edited by 11. Nettleship. Be also wrote an excellent Life of John Hilton (1879: reprinted. with alterations, 1880, 1883. 1885. 1887) for the "English Men of Letters" series, and edited Pope's Essay on Man (1869: 2d ed. 1872) and Satir(s and Epistlel (1872: 2d ed. 1874). An edition by him of the ,enacts of Milton, with a valuable introduction, appeared in 1883. Other published volumes are ,s'ermons 08851. and the Memoirs (to 1861), dictated in 1883. and printed in 1885. Patti son's literary work is for the main part marked by the most thorough scholarship. eminent judg ment, and a skillful presentation of material. In real academic distinction he was second to none at Oxford. He was a tireless pedestrian and angler. a student of natural history, brief and often ironic in speeeh, contemptuous of sham. and so reluctant in the expression of his KM, as sometimes quite to hamper the proceed ings of committees of which he was a member.