Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, is the original of “Sir Thomas Lofty” (1717-1797). =Patten=, according to Gay, is so called from Patty, the pretty daughter of a Lincolnshire farmer, with whom the village blacksmith fell in love. To save her from wet feet when she went to milk the cows, he mounted her clogs on an iron eke. The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue-eyed Patty takes its name. Gay, _Trivia_, i. (1712). (Of course, the word is the French _patin_, “a skate or high-heeled shoe,” from the Greek, _patein_, “to walk.”) =Pattieson= (_Mr. Peter_), in the introduction of _The Heart of Midlothian_, by Sir W. Scott, and again in the introduction of _The Bride of Lammermoor_. He is a hypothetical assistant teacher at Gandercleuch, and the feigned author of _The Tales of My Landlord_, which Sir Walter Scott pretends were published by Jedediah Cleishbotham, after the death of Pattieson. =Patton= (_Mrs._). Tailoress and talker, otherwise known as “the Widow Jim,” who has all genealogy and relationship at her tongue’s end. “She chatters all day as the swallows chatter, and you do not tire of her.”--Sarah Orne Jewett, _Deephaven_ (1877). =Patterson= (_Elizabeth_). One of the most remarkable women of this century. The beautiful daughter of a Baltimore merchant prince, she captivated Jerome Bonaparte, (then a minor, and dependent on his brother), who was visiting America. In the face of parental opposition, she married him Dec. 24, 1803. Napoleon (First Consul) promptly repudiated the marriage, ordered his brother home, and forbade all French vessels to receive as a passenger, “_the young person_ with whom Citizen Joseph has connected himself.” In October, 1804, the young couple sailed for France in the ship _Philadelphia_, but were blown ashore at Lewes, Del. In March, 1805, they embarked again, reaching Lisbon, April 2. Napoleon (now emperor) refused to allow them to enter France, but sent to know “what he could do for _Miss Patterson_.” She replied that “Madame Bonaparte demanded her rights as one of the imperial family.” The contest was unequal. She was sent back to America, and the marriage declared null and void. Her son, Jerome, was born in England, July 7, 1805. She was never allowed to see her husband again, yet her ambitious projects for “Bo,” as she called her son, were unremitting until the downfall of the Bonarparte[TN-72] family. After this, she aimed to ally him with the English nobility, a design thwarted by his love-match with a lovely Baltimorean. She was an able financier, and became one of the richest women in Baltimore. Retaining her mind and many traces of her extraordinary beauty to the last, she died, April 3, 1879, at the age of ninety-four.