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Letter, 20 August 1872
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Samuel Rowles Pattison was born in 1809 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.
He was a successful London solicitor by secular profession, a Baptist by religious profession, and a geologist by amateur preference. He was for years prominent in the legal and financial affairs of the Baptist Union and the Geological Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1839. Pattison was the author of several books, e.g., "Chapters on Fossil Botany" (1849), "Gospel Ethnology" (1860), "On the History of Evangelical Christianity" (1875), "The Religious Topography of England" (1882), etc.
In 1836, he married Marina Chine (1807–1874), and in 1875, he married Abigail J. Hone (1830–). He died on November 27, 1901, in London, England.
Letter from J.R. Pattison to John William Dawson.