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Mark Pattison (10 October 1813 – 30 July 1884) was an English author and a

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priest. He served as

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of Lincoln College,

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Life

He was the son of the rector of Hauxwell,

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, and was privately educated by his father, Mark James Pattison. His sister was Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison ("

Sister Dora Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora (16 January 1832 – 24 December 1878), was a 19th-century Anglican nun and nurse who worked in Walsall, Staffordshire. Life Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison was born in Hauxwell, North Ridin ...

"). In 1832, he matriculated at

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, 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

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, an anti-

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College. Pattison was at this time a Puseyite, and greatly under the influence of

John Henry Newman John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican ministry, Anglican priest and later as a Catholi ...

, for whom he worked, helping in the translation of

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's ''Catena Aurea'', and writing in the ''

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'' and ''

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''. 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 the philologist

Isaac Casaubon Isaac Casaubon (; ; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England. His son Méric Casaubon was also a classical scholar. Life Early life He was born in Geneva to two Fr ...

and the historian

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, which occupied the remainder of his life. In 1861, he was at last elected rector of Lincoln College in

, 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

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, Yorkshire. His biography of

appeared in 1875; he also wrote about

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's "

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wrote in his diary in 1891 that he "was astonished to find he biography of Casaubonon the shelves" of a

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in the small north Somerset seaside resort of

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. 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 ''

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'' (1860), and by his edition of

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's ''Essay on Man'' (1869), etc. His ''Sermons and Collected Essays'', edited by

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, 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.

Publications

* (1845)
''Stephen Langton. Archbishop of Canterbury''
* (1845)
''St. Edmund. Archbishop of Canterbury''
* (1855).
Oxford Studies.
In: ''Oxford Essays.'' * (1859). ''Report on Elementary Education in Protestant Germany.'' * (1860).
Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688–1750.
In: ''Essays and Reviews.'' * (1868). ''Suggestions on Academical Organisation.'' * (1875)
''Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614.''
* (1876).
Review of the Situation.
In: ''Essays on the Endowment of Research.'' * (1879). ''Milton.'
1911 reprint of 1879 1st edition
* (1885)
''Memoirs.''
* (1885). ''Sermons.'' * (1889)
''Essays.''
ref> (Collected and arranged by

) * (1949). ''The Estiennes.'' Selected articles * (1875)
"Milton,"
''Macmillan's Magazine.'' * (1876)
"Philosophy at Oxford,"
''Mind''. * (1877)
"The Age of Reason,"
''The Fortnightly Review.'' * (1877)
"Books and Critics,"
''The Fortnightly Review.'' * (1880). "Middle-class Education," ''New Quarterly Magazine.'' * (1880). "Industrial Shortcomings," ''The Fortnightly Review.'' * (1881)
"The Thing That Might Be,"
''The North American Review.'' * (1881)
"Etienne Dolet,"
''The Fortnightly Review.'' * (1882). "What is College?," ''The Journal of Education.''

Notes

Sources

* Jones, H.S. (2007). ''Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Sparrow, John (1967). ''Mark Pattison and the Idea of a University.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Portrait of Pattison, by Alexander MacDonald
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