Robert Paterson [Old Mortality]

(1716-1801)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Paterson, Robert, 1715-1801 DNB: Paterson, Robert [nicknamed Old Mortality] (bap. 1716, d. 1801), stonemason LBT ID: RoPater1801 VIAF ID: 39304009 LOC ID: nr2001018861	B/BAP: 1716-04-26 DIED: 1801-02-14
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Cameronian stonemason and religious fanatic who erected monuments to martyrs; Sir Walter Scott named his novel after his sobriquet.
REFERENCES TO Robert Paterson [Old Mortality]: Walter Scott to John Murray, 18 December 1816 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter I 1816 Found 1: ¶ 30 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XVIII. Found 1: ¶ 47