Andrew Melville Paterson

Prof. Andrew Melville Paterson MD
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Born	1862
Died	1919
Residence	University College, Dundee [1891] Anatomy Rooms, University College, Liverpool [1897]
Occupation	academic medical anatomist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1919 deceased elected_AI 1891.11.10 clubs Royal Societies Club Royal Liverpool Golf Club Royal and Ancient Golf Club societies Royal College of Surgeons Anatomical Society Royal Academy of Music

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Professor of Anatomy
1891.10.27 proposed
death reported in Report of the Council for 1920

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Andrew Melville Paterson was born on the 7th March 1862 at 56 Cecil Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester the son of the Rev John Carruthers Paterson and Ann (nee Pilcher).
His father was a Presbyterian (Free Church) Minister born at Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. In 1852 he had already embarked upon his ministry and was living at Half Morton, Dumfriesshire. His mother was born at Liverpool where his parents were married, at St.Jude's C,of E. Church, in 1853.
After their marriage the Patersons returned to Scotland where their eldest child, Annie C was born in 1855. The following year they were back in Lancashire where Reverend Paterson was minister at St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Oxford Road, Chorlton on Medlock. In 1861 the family home was at 56 Cecil Street.
All their younger children were born at Manchester; Margaret (born 1856), John William (born 1858), Mary Elizabeth (born 1860), Andrew Melville (born 1862), Jane (born 1863), Hope Beattie (born 1869) and Mabel (born 1870).
Rev Paterson died at 33 Shakespeare Street, Ardwick, Manchester on the 3rd February 1871 when his youngest child, Mabel, was only three months old. When probate of his estate was obtained at Manchester his effects were valued at under £3,000 (£300,000 at current values.)
His widow and young family were still at 33 Shakespeare Street in April 1871 when the census was taken. Ten years later Andrew Melville Paterson was a nineteen year old medical student at the University of Edinburgh lodging with the Wood family at 82 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh whilst his mother and siblings were living at 9 Derby Road, Withington, Manchester.
Mrs Paterson was an annuitant and her eldest son, John was a grey cloth salesman. Lodging with the family was A E B (Archibald Edward Buchanan) Brown, a commercial clerk from Belfast who went on to marry Andrew's sister Margaret Paterson in 1885.
1888 was a momentous year for Andrew Paterson. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Dundee University aged just twenty-six and also married Beatrice Eadson at Emmanuel C.of E Church, Barlow Moor, Manchester. Professor Paterson's distinguished medical and academic is covered in depth by Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online and the British Medical Journal.
He and his wife had five children. The elder three, Muriel Beatrice, John Carruthers and Richard Eadson were born at Dundee in 1889, 1891 and 1893 respectively. In 1891 they were living at 41 Seafield Road, Dundee. Two more children, Hilda Melville and Vera Mary, were born in 1897 and 1901 after they moved to Liverpool. At the time of the 1901 census Andrew Paterson was in London staying at the Royal Societies Club, St James' Street whilst his wife and children were at home at 21 Abercromby Square, Liverpool.
This was still their residence in 1911 but by that time John Carruthers Paterson was at medical school in London.
In 1914 his daughter Muriel Beatrice married William Arthur Sievwright of Edinburgh at St.Catherine's C.of E. Church, Liverpool.

A.M.PATERSON, M.D.EDIN., F.R.C.S.ENG., LIEUTENANT-COLONEL R.A.M.C.
Professor Anatomy, University of Liverpool; Assistant Inspector Special Military surgery.
THE death of Professor Paterson, which took place rather suddenly on February 13th, has caused deep regret to all who knew him. four days previously, in the course of his military duties, he had returned from London feeling indisposed; bronchopneumonia supervened, and he passed away.
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At the beginning of 1917 Professor Paterson became assistant inspector of military orthopaedics, and as chief of staff to Major-General Sir Robert Jones was strenuously occupied up to the time of his death. A man of unbounding energy concentrated in not too strong a body, Professor Paterson could not remain inactive, and there is no doubt that his military duties hastened the end. Professor Paterson sought recreation in golf, and was a past captain of the Royal Liverpool Club. In discussion he was forceful, a clear speaker and to the point, socially genial, and in matters in which he was deeply interested at times uncompromising in his views. The funeral service took place at Mossley Hill Church, where representatives of the university, prominent citizens, and numerous friends were assembled to pay their tribute to the memory of a well spent and all too short a life. Professor Paterson leaves a widow, a son and three daughters. One son, Lieutenant Paterson, lost his life in the battle of Jutland.
British Medical Journal 1st March 1919

Hilda Melville Paterson married George Cecil Mort, a doctor, at All Hallows C.of E. Church, Allerton in 1922.

His youngest son, Richard Eadson Paterson, pursued a naval career from the age of twelve and was killed at the battle of Jutland in 1916.

Professor Paterson served during the war as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps based at Alder Hey Special Military Surgical Hospital

He died 'Sunnyside' Palmerston Road, Mossley Hill of bronchopneumonia and was buried in the C.of E. section of Allerton Cemetery on the 17th February 1919.


An extensive obituary appeared in the British Medical Journal on the 1st March 1919.

Whole career in anatomy becoming Professor of Anatomy, Liverpool University in 1894. Major in RAMC in World War 1.