exceptional, and he spoke 23 languages with ease. In 1861 he was consecrated bishop of Melanesia, and fixed his headquarters at Mota. He was killed by natives at Nukapu, in the Santa Cruz group, on the 20th of September 1871, the victim of a tragic error. The traders engaged in the nefarious traffic in Kanaka labour for Fiji and Queensland had taken to personating missionaries in order to facilitate their kidnapping; Patteson was mistaken for one of these and killed. His murderers evidently found out their mistake and repented of it, for the bishop’s body was found at sea floating in a canoe, covered with a palm fibre matting, and a palm-branch in his hand. He is thus represented in the bas-relief erected in Merton College to his memory.
See Life by Charlotte M. Yonge (1873).
PATTI, ADELINA JUAÑA MARIA [Baroness Cederström]
(1843–), the famous vocalist, daughter of an Italian singer, Salvatore Patti, was born at Madrid on the 19th of February
1843. Her mother, also a singer, was Spanish, being known
before her marriage as Signora Barili. Both the parents of
Adelina went to America, where their daughter was taught
singing by Maurice Strakosch, who married Amelia Patti, an
elder sister. Gifted with a brilliant soprano voice, Adelina
Patti began her public career at the age of seven in the concert
halls of New York, where in 1859 she also made her first appearance
as Lucia in Donizetti’s opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. On
the 14th of May 1861 she sang as Amina in Bellini’s opera
La Sonnambula at Covent Garden, and from this time she became
the leading operatic prima donna, her appearances in London,
Paris and the other principal musical centres being a long
succession of triumphs, and her roles covering all the great parts
in Italian opera. In 1868 she married Henri, marquis de Caux,
a member of Napoleon III.’s household, from whom she was
divorced in 1885; she then married Nicolini, the tenor, who died
in 1898; and in 1899 she became the wife of Baron Cederstrom,
a Swede, who was naturalized as an Englishman. Madame
Patti ceased to appear on the operatic stage in public after the
’eighties, but at Craig-y-Nos, her castle in Wales, she built a
private theatre, and her occasional appearances at concerts at
the Albert Hall continued to attract enthusiastic audiences,
her singing of “Home, Sweet Home” becoming peculiarly
associated with those events. Partly owing to her fine original
training, partly to her splendid method and partly to her
avoidance of Wagnerian rôles, Madame Patti wonderfully
preserved the freshness of her voice, and she will be remembered
as, after Jenny Lind, the greatest soprano of the 19th century.
PATTI, a town and episcopal see of Sicily, in the province of Messina, 42 m. W. by S. of Messina by rail. Pop. (1901), 5473 (town), 10,995 (commune). The cathedral, founded about 1300, has been modernized; it contains the tomb (restored in the 17th century) of Adelasia, widow of Count Roger of Sicily. The abandoned church of San Marco is built into the remains of a Greek temple.
PATTISON, MARK (1813–1884), English author and rector of
Lincoln College, Oxford, was born on the 10th 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 30th 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,
1688–1750) to the once famous Essays and Reviews (1860), 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 autobiography
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 end—to 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. 1, 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 in Walsall, and from 1867 to 1877 she was in charge of a new hospital 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.).
PATTON, FRANCIS LANDEY (1843–), American educationalist and theologian, was born in Warwick parish, Bermuda, on the 22nd of January 1843. He studied at Knox College and at the university of Toronto; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1865; was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in June 1865; was pastor of the 84th Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, in 1865–1867, of the Presbyterian Church of Nyack, New York, in 1867–1870, of the South Church, Brooklyn, in 1871, and of the Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, Chicago, in 1874–1881; and in 1872–1881 was professor in McCormick Seminary, Chicago. He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1878. In 1881–1888 he was Stuart professor “of the relation of philosophy and science to the Christian religion” (a chair founded for him) in Princeton Theological Seminary; in 1888–1902 he was president of the College of New Jersey, which in 1896 became Princeton University; in 1902 he became president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He brought charges of heresy in 1874 against David Swing, and was prosecuting attorney at Swing’s trial. In 1891 and 1892 he was one of the opponents of Dr Charles A. Briggs at the time of the Briggs heresy case. Dr Patton was an opponent of the revision of the Confession
