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XIX.— A. DUNN PATTISON, ESQ. OF DALMUIR.
Only surviving son of Frederick Hope Pattison, Esq. of Mount Blow,
by Janet Park, eldest daughter of George Park, Esq. of Waterside,
Renfrewshire. Born in 1834, Mr. Dunn Pattison was educated first
at St. Andrews, and then at Edinburgh University. Selecting law
specially as his profession, he studied for the bar and passed advocate
in 1856. He had not been long in the Parliament House when a
complicated, and as it proved, a lengthy and expensive litigation
arose, in connection with the settlements of his granduncles William
and Alexander Dunn of Duntocher. Apart from the importance of
the properties in dispute many interesting questions of law came
up for discussion, and to these Mr. Dunn Pattison devoted a share
of attention precluding him from engaging in much of the general
business he might otherwise have taken up. Gaining the whole, or
his share, of thirteen out of fourteen properties which he claimed, Mr.
Dunn Pattison may be said to have been almost wholly successful,
as even in respect of the fourteenth property claimed he draws ^300
a year as superior of the lands of Balquhanran. The Settlement
arrived at, stated generally, will be found in our notice of the late
William Dunn. It is only sufficient to mention here in addition, that
Mr. Dunn Pattison, at the close of a litigation, lasting upwards of
seventeen years, became curator lawful, and thus heir-presumptive to
William Park, Esq. of the Kilbowies and Balquhanran, etc., heir-
at-law of Alexander Dunn. In 1872 Mr. Dunn Pattison married
Minnie, daughter of Richard Philipson, Esq. of the Bengal Medical
Staff, by whom he has two sons and one daughter. He is a magis-
trate of the county of Dumbarton, and a member of the Reform Club.
In the course of 1877 Mr. Dunn Pattison sold the larger portion
of his Mount Blow and Dalmuir property to the Corporation of
Glasgow, for the sum of one hundred and ten thousand pounds
sterling.