to delight in the peculiarly elegant and accurate scholarship which
was the characteristic of the highest education of their day, their
boyhood and youth were full of the unstained mirth that gives such
radiance to recollections of the past, and often causes the loyalty
of affectionate association to be handed on to succeeding
generations. The thorough Etonian impress, with all that it
involved, was of no small account in his life, as well as in that of
his son.

The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King's
College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he came to London to study law.
In 1816 he opened his chambers as a special pleader, and on February
23, 1818, was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Lee, after a long
engagement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began
to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died,
leaving one daughter, Joanna Elizabeth. Four years later, on April
22, 1824, Mr. Patteson married Frances Duke Coleridge, sister of his
friend and fellow-barrister, John Taylor Coleridge. This lady, whose
name to all who remember her calls up a fair and sweet memory of all
that was good, bright, and beloved, was the daughter of James
Coleridge, of Heath's Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the
South Devon Volunteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of
the Rev. John Coleridge, Master of Ottery St. Mary School, and the
poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was the youngest.

The strong family affection that existed between all Colonel
Coleridge's children, and concentrated itself upon the only sister
among them, made marriage with her an adoption into a group that
could not fail to exercise a strong influence on all connected with
it, and the ties of kindred will be found throughout this memoir to