Mark Pattison's Memoirs, compiled during his last illness and
published posthumously in 1885, recount the academic's fascinating,
if difficult, life. Highly regarded for his learning, Pattison
(1813 84) spent most of his adult life in Oxford, first as a
student, then a tutor, and eventually, from 1861, as Rector of
Lincoln College. He was a close associate of Newman and the
Tractarians during the 1840s, though he later tended towards
agnosticism. During the 1850s he made several visits to German
universities, and developed an interest in early modern Protestant
thought. He later edited works by Pope and Milton. Pattison's
Memoirs paint a vivid though often bitter portrait of life in
Victorian Oxford. They describe his incompetent tutors, his
disillusionment with the Oxford Movement, and vicious academic
rivalries. Pattison would not permit changes to 'soften' the
impact, but his editor omitted certain passages that might 'wound
the feelings of the living'.
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