Author: Patrick, Richard
Biography:
PATRICK, Richard (1769-1815: ODNB)
He was baptised at Holy Trinity, Hull, Yorkshire, on 25 Nov. 1769, the son of Richard Patrick who according to Forshaw’s Yorkshire Poets was an officer of excise. His mother’s name is not known. From the Hull Grammar School he went to Magdalene College, Cambridge (matric. 1787, BA 1791, MA 1808) and was ordained in the Church of England (deacon 1791, priest 1792). He was Vicar of Sculcoates, Hull, from 1794 until his death in 1815, and chaplain to the Marchioness of Townshend from 1809 to 1815. He did not marry. He was a classical scholar of varied interests, known in his day for two essays on the origin and decline of the Latin language that were included in an edition of Cicero’s De Senectute (1811) and for a Chart of Ten Numerals in Two Hundred Tongues (1812). His last published work, The Death of Prince Bagration, was reviewed and excerpted but is now known in only one copy. He died at his vicarage on 9 Feb. 1815 and was buried in the churchyard, with a monument designed by himself. (ODNB 28 Aug. 2023; Yorkshire Poets 4: 47; CCEd 28 Aug. 2023; ACAD; Hull Packet 14 Feb. 1815)
Other Names:
- R. Patrick