Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Patrick, Samuel
PATRICK, SAMUEL (1684–1748), scholar, born in 1684, was for some years usher (i.e. second master) at the Charterhouse. Late in life he was granted, it is said, the degree of LL.D. from St. Andrews University and took holy orders, but received no preferment. He died at Kentish Town on 20 March 1748.
Patrick appears to have been a sort of Dominie Sampson, deeply read in the classics and ignorant and oblivious of most other matters. He established some reputation as a scholar by his ‘Terence's Comedies translated into English prose as near as the propriety of the two languages will admit,’ London, 1745, 2 vols. 8vo, and his edition of Ainsworth's ‘Latin Dictionary,’ London, 1746, 4to. He also edited ‘M. B. Hederici Lexicon Manuale Græcum,’ London, 1727, 4to; ‘C. Cellarii Geographia Antiqua,’ 6th edit. London, 1731, 8vo, and collaborated with George Thompson in the preparation of his ‘Apparatus ad Linguam Græcam ordine novo digestus,’ London, 1732. Recensions of the ‘Clavis Homerica,’ London, 1771, and the ‘Colloquia’ of Erasmus, London, 1773, also purport to be by him.
[Nichols's Lit. Anecd.; Scots Mag. 1748, p. 153; London Mag. 1748, p. 141; Gent. Mag. 1748, p. 139; Pope's Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope, x. 307; Notes and Queries, 8th ser. viii. 444.]