John Paterson

(1780 c.-1797 fl.)

LBT ID: JoPater1797	B/BAP: 1780
SOURCES: H. F. Morland Simpson, Bon Record, Records and Reminiscences of Aberdeen Grammar School (1906) 170
Byron's schoolmaster at Aberdeen and student of Marischal College (M.A. 1800). He is usually identified as Joseph Paterson (1779-1871) who however informed John Murray that Byron referred to his brother John.
REFERENCES TO John Paterson: Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 25 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 1: ¶ 24 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 15 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt [concluded]” in The Athenaeum (11 September 1830) 568-69 Found 1: ¶ 4 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 2: ¶ 29 ¶ 30