Editing Mark Pattison (academic)

{{Short description|English author and Church of England priest (1813–1884)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name           = Mark Pattison
| image          = Reminiscences of Oxford (1900) (14592232439).jpg
| caption        = Mark Pattison
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1813|10|10}}
| birth_place    = Hauxwell, North Riding of Yorkshire
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|1884|7|30|1813|10|10}}
| death_place    = Harrogate, Yorkshire
| nationality    = English
| occupation     = Author, Priest
| education      = 
| alma_mater     = Oriel College, Oxford
| spouse         = Emily Francis Strong (Lady Dilke)
| children       = 
| office         = {{Infobox officeholder/office|type=rector|university=Lincoln College, Oxford|term_start=1861|term_end=1884}}
| predecessor    = James Thompson
| successor      = William Walter Merry
}}
'''Mark Pattison''' (10 October 1813 – 30 July 1884) was an English author and a [[Church of England]] priest. He served as [[Rector (college)|Rector]] of [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]].

==Life==
He was the son of the rector of [[East Hauxwell|Hauxwell]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], and was privately educated by his father, Mark James Pattison. His sister was Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison ("[[Sister Dora]]").<ref>Miss W. R. Probert, ''Walsall's Own 'Lady with the lamp','' ''[[Black Country#Further reading|The Blackcountryman]]'', Spring 2007, Vol. 40, No. 2, p. 51. {{ISSN|0006-4335}}</ref> 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 College, Oxford]], an anti-[[Edward Pusey|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'',<ref>J.H.N. (1874), [https://dn790001.ca.archive.org/0/items/p1catenaaureacom01thomuoft/p1catenaaureacom01thomuoft.pdf Preface to ''Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels collected out of the Works of the Fathers by S Thomas Aquinas''], page xv, accessed on 2 July 2024</ref> and writing in the ''[[British Critic]]'' and ''[[Christian Remembrancer]]''.

He was ordained a 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]] and the historian [[Joseph Justus Scaliger]], which occupied the remainder of his life.

In 1861, he was at last elected rector of Lincoln College in [[Oxford]], marrying in the same year [[Lady Dilke|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 [[chancellor (education)|vice-chancellorship]]. But while living the life of a student, he was fond of society, and especially of the society of women. In later life he formed a close friendship with Meta Bradley, a young woman 40 years his junior. On his death he left her £5,000, much to his wife's displeasure.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pattison |first=Mark |title=Memoirs of an Oxford Don |publisher=Cassell |isbn=9780304322190 |location=London |publication-date=1988 |pages=9, 11-13}}</ref> Pattison died at [[Harrogate]], Yorkshire.

His biography of [[Isaac Casaubon]] appeared in 1875; he also wrote about [[John Milton]] in [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]'s "[[English Men of Letters]]" series in 1879. The late nineteenth-century English author [[George Gissing]] wrote in his diary in 1891 that he "was astonished to find [the biography of Casaubon] on the shelves" of a [[circulating library]] in the small north Somerset seaside resort of [[Clevedon]].<ref>Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978, p.250.</ref> 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 [[Alexander Pope|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.

{{blockquote|Posterity has not been kind to Mark Pattison. For many he remains the stereotypical Mr [[Dryasdust|DryasDust]] and/or the original of [[George Eliot]]'s [[Middlemarch#Characters|Edward Casaubon]] in ''[[Middlemarch]]''; and his best-known twentieth-century commentator and critic, [[John Sparrow (academic)|John Sparrow]], did little to alter that picture. ...<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1093/ehr/ceq071|title=Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don|year=2010|last1=Sutherland|first1=Gillian|journal=The English Historical Review|issue=513|pages=469–471}}</ref>}}

His extensive personal archive—comprising 63 archival boxes and including diaries, correspondence, journals, sermons and working papers, including material relating to Scaliger, Pierre-Daniel Huet and Claude Saumaise—is held in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts, the [[Bodleian Library]], Oxford (MSS. Pattison 7*, 79-144).

==Publications==
* (1845). [https://archive.org/stream/livesenglishsai07newmgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Stephen Langton. Archbishop of Canterbury''].<ref>Fisher, Devon (2013). ''Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature''. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, p. 70.</ref>
* (1845). [https://archive.org/stream/a678908505newmuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''St. Edmund. Archbishop of Canterbury''].<ref>Shattock, Joanne (1999). ''The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800-1900.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 2265.</ref>
* (1855). "[https://archive.org/stream/a601339700univuoft#page/250/mode/2up Oxford Studies.]" In: ''Oxford Essays.''
* (1859). ''Report on Elementary Education in Protestant Germany.''
* (1860). "[https://archive.org/stream/a578549600unknuoft#page/n265/mode/2up Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688–1750.]" In: ''Essays and Reviews.''
* (1868). ''Suggestions on Academical Organisation.''
* (1875). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001181289 ''Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614.'']
* (1876). "[https://archive.org/stream/essaysonendowmen00patt#page/n15/mode/2up Review of the Situation.]" In: ''Essays on the Endowment of Research.''
* (1879). ''Milton.'' [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011716601 1911 reprint of 1879 1st edition]
* (1885). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001452867 ''Memoirs.'']
* (1885). ''Sermons.''
* (1889). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000665516 ''Essays.'']<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ward, A. W.|author-link=Adolphus William Ward|title=Review of ''Essays by the late Mark Pattison, sometime Rector of Lincoln College''. Collected and arranged by Henry Nettleship, 2 vols.|journal=The English Historical Review|volume=4|date=October 1889|pages=787–789|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012358373;view=1up;seq=801}}</ref> (Collected and arranged by [[Henry Nettleship]])
* (1949). ''The Estiennes.''

'''Selected articles'''
* (1875). [https://archive.org/stream/macmillansmagazi31macmuoft#page/380/mode/2up "Milton,"] ''Macmillan's Magazine.''
* (1876). [https://archive.org/stream/mindreview01edinuoft#page/82/mode/2up "Philosophy at Oxford,"] ''Mind''.
* (1877). [https://archive.org/stream/fortnightlyrevi04unkngoog#page/n351/mode/2up "The Age of Reason,"] ''The Fortnightly Review.''
* (1877). [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000093208738;view=1up;seq=665 "Books and Critics,"] ''The Fortnightly Review.''
* (1880). "Middle-class Education," ''New Quarterly Magazine.''
* (1880). "Industrial Shortcomings," ''The Fortnightly Review.''
* (1881). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25100949?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents "The Thing That Might Be,"] ''The North American Review.''
* (1881). [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101039673775;view=1up;seq=43 "Etienne Dolet,"] ''The Fortnightly Review.''
* (1882). "What is College?," ''The Journal of Education.''

==References==
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==Attribution==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Pattison, Mark|volume=20|page=937}}

==Sources==
* [[Vivian H. H. Green|Green, V.H.H.]] (1985). ''Love in a Cool Climate: Letters f Mark Pattison and Meta Bradley''. Oxford University Press.
* [[Stuart Jones (historian)|Jones, H.S.]] (2007). ''Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* [[John Hanbury Angus Sparrow|Sparrow, John]] (1967). ''Mark Pattison and the Idea of a University.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

==Further reading==
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* Althaus, T.F. (1885). "Recollections of Mark Pattison," ''Temple Bar,'' Vol. LXXIII, pp.&nbsp;31–49.
* Brodrick, George Charles (1900). [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesandimpr01brodgoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''Memories and Impressions, 1831–1900.''] London: James Nisbet & Co.
* Church, R.W. (1897). [https://archive.org/stream/occasionalpapers02chur#page/n5/mode/2up ''Occasional Papers,''] Vol. 2. London: Macmillan & Co., pp.&nbsp;351–372.
* [[Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet|Dilke, Charles W.]] (1905). "[https://archive.org/stream/bookofspirituall00dilkuoft#page/n17/mode/2up Memoir]." In: ''The Book of the Spiritual Life.'' London: John Murray.
* Francis, Mark (1974). "The Origins of Essays and Reviews: An Interpretation of Mark Pattison in the 1850s," ''The Historical Journal,'' Vol. 17, No. 4, pp.&nbsp;797–811.
* Galton, Arthur (1885). "[https://archive.org/stream/urbanascriptastu00galt#page/186/mode/2up Mark Pattison.]" In: ''Urbana Scripta''. London: Elliot Stock, pp.&nbsp;187–210.
* [[Anthony Grafton|Grafton, Anthony]] (1983). "Mark Pattison," ''The American Scholar,'' Vol. 52, No. 2, pp.&nbsp;229–236.
* Green, V.H.H. (1957). ''Oxford Common Room: A Study of Lincoln College and Mark Pattison.'' London: Edward Arnold.
* [[Eliza Lynn Linton|Linton, Eliza Lynn]] (1885). "Mark Pattison," ''Temple Bar,'' Vol. LXXIV, pp.&nbsp;221–236.
* Morison, J. Cotter (1884). "[https://archive.org/stream/macmillansmagaz00grovgoog#page/n414/mode/2up Mark Pattison: In Memorian]," ''Macmillan's Magazine'', Vol. L, pp.&nbsp;401–408.
* [[John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn|Morley, John]] (1885). [https://archive.org/stream/macmillansmagaz12grovgoog#page/n457/mode/2up "On Pattison's Memoir,"] ''The Macmillan's Magazine,'' Vol. LI, pp.&nbsp;446–461 (Rpt. in [https://archive.org/stream/criticalmiscell12morlgoog#page/n147/mode/2up ''Critical Miscellanies,''] Vol. 3. London: Macmillan & Co., 1886, pp.&nbsp;133–174).
* Nimmo, Duncan (1978). "Towards and Away From Newman's Theory of Doctrinal Development: Pointers from Mark Pattison in 1838 and 1846," ''The Journal of Theological Studies,'' , Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.&nbsp;160–162.
* Nuttall, A. D. (2003). Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale University Press). (See Chapter 2: "Mark Pattison").
* Shriver, Frederick (1987). "Liberal Catholicism: James I, Isaac Casaubon, Bishop Wittingham of Maryland, and Mark Pattison," ''Anglican and Episcopal History,'' Vol. 56, No. 3, pp.&nbsp;303–317.
* Tollemache, Lionel A. (1893). "[https://archive.org/stream/stonesofstumblin00tollrich#page/118/mode/2up Recollections of Pattison.]" In: ''Stones of Stumbling.'' London: William Rice, pp.&nbsp;119–203.
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==External links==
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* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Pattison,%20Mark,%201813-1884.%22&type=author&inst= Works by Mark Pattison] at [[Hathi Trust]]
* [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mark-pattison-18131884-rector-18611884-222275 Portrait of Pattison, by Alexander MacDonald]

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