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).