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Mark Pattison (
October 10,
1813 -
July 30,
1884) was an
English author and a
Church of England priest. He served as
rector of
Lincoln College, Oxford.
Life
He was the son of the rector of
Hauxwell,
Yorkshire, and was privately educated by his father, Mark James Pattison. His sister was Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison ("
Sister Dora") . In 1832 he matriculated at
Oriel College, Oxford, 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
John Henry 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 was edged out. The disappointment was acute and his health suffered. In
1855 he resigned the tutorship, travelled to
Germany to investigate Continental systems of education, and began his researches into the lives of
Isaac Casaubon and
Joseph Justus Scaliger, which occupied the remainder of his life.
In
1861 he was at last elected rector of Lincoln, marrying in the same year
Emily Francis Strong (afterwards
Lady Dilke). As rector, he 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. However, he avoided the routine of university business, 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, Yorkshire.
His biography of Isaac Casaubon appeared in 1875; he also wrote about
John 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), etc. 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.
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