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 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.