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P  of the Ancient Church relating to the Eucharist wholly different from those of the present Roman Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of Transubstantiation’ (anon.), London, 1688. In a preface the author acknowledges the authorship of No. 3 supra. Reprinted in (Gibson's) ‘Preservative against Popery,’ 1738, fol. (vol. ii. tit. vii. pp. 176–252), and in John Cummings's edition of the ‘Preservative,’ London, 1848 (ix. 89–299). The argument of Patrick's treatise has been recently reissued in ‘The Witness of the Roman Missal against the Roman and Ritualistic Doctrine of the Mass,’ by Joseph Foxley, M.A., London, 1878. 5. ‘The Virgin Mary misrepresented by the Roman Church in the traditions of that Church concerning her Life and Glory, and in the Devotions paid to her as the Mother of God; part i. wherein two of her feasts, her Conception and Nativity, are considered,’ London, 1688; reprinted in the ‘Preservative against Popery,’ 1738.

Patrick contributed to ‘Plutarch's Morals translated from the Greek by several hands,’ 1684–94 (cf. for Patrick's work i. 109 sq., ii. 112 sq., iii. 19 sq.). He also issued an abridgment of Chillingworth's ‘Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation’ (anon.), London, 1687, with some additional discourses of Chillingworth, printed from manuscripts in the hands of Archbishop Tenison. Patrick is said to have undertaken the work at the instigation of Tillotson, Burnet, and Stillingfleet; it was reprinted in 1845.

[Graduati Cantabrigienses; Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rep. v. 99, vi. 233, 7th Rep. p. 500; Ackermann's Hist. of Colleges of Winchester, Eton, Westminster, and the Charterhouse, part iv. p. 28; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. vi. 297, 1st ser. iii. 214; Le Neve's Fasti; Stark's History of Gainsborough; Gurnhill's Lyffe and Death Book of Gainsborough; information kindly supplied by James Porter, master of Peterhouse, and by the Rev. R. E. Warner, rector of Gainsborough.] 

PATRICK, RICHARD (1769–1815), classical scholar and divine, was son of Richard Patrick of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, where he was born in 1769. He was educated in the public school there, and entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, on 26 Oct. 1786 as a sizar. He graduated B.A. in 1791, and M.A. in 1808; in 1794 he became vicar of Sculcoates, Hull. He also acted as chaplain to Anne, widow of George, first marquis Townshend. He died at his vicarage on 9 Feb. 1815, aged forty-five. Patrick published ‘The Adventures of a Hull Eighteenpenny Token,’ anon. 1811; ‘Geographical, Commercial, and Political Essays,’ anon. 1812; and at least one sermon (Hull, 1809). He also contributed to ‘The Classical Journal’ ‘Remarks on Sir George Staunton's Penal Code of China’ (1810, ii. 381); ‘The Chinese World’ (1811, iii. 16); ‘Notes on part of the poem of Festus Avienus,’ ‘an account of a voyage to Cornwall, Ireland, and Albion, performed by Himilco, the celebrated Carthagenian admiral’ (iii. 141 sqq.); ‘A Chart of Ten Numerals’ (iv. 105 sq.), followed by a descriptive essay. The latter was reprinted separately as ‘A Chart of Ten Numerals in Two Hundred Tongues, with a Descriptive Essay,’ London, 1812. It is an attempt, on a basis of comparative philology, at classifying the races of the earth. To E. H. Barker's edition of Cicero's ‘De Senectute’ and ‘De Amicitia’ of 1811 Patrick contributed ‘an appendix, in which will be found remarks on the origin of the Latin conjunctions and prepositions; also some curious matter on the affinity of different languages, oriental and northern, to the Latin, including two essays on the origin and the extinction of the Latin tongue.’

[Information kindly sent by A. G. Peskett, master of Magdalene College, Cambr.; Classical Journal, vols. ii.–iv.; Luard's Grad. Cantabr.; Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors.] 

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.] 