Robert Lloyd Patterson

Sir Robert Lloyd Patterson (1836–1906) was an Irish naturalist and linen merchant.

Biography

Patterson was the second son of Robert Patterson F.R.S. In August 1902, he was awarded a knighthood for services to the Belfast Chamber of Commerce.[1] Robert Lloyd Patterson wrote several zoological papers in the Irish Naturalist and the Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and a book titled The Birds, Fishes and Cetacea of Belfast Lough (1880). On his death Robert Lloyd Patterson bequeathed his art collection to the Belfast Corporation. It is now in the Ulster Museum.

Arms
Coat of arms of Robert Lloyd Patterson
Notes
Confirmed 30 March 1901 by Sir Arthur Vicars, Ulster King of Arms.[2]
Crest
On a wreath of the colours a pelican in her piety vulning herself Proper gorged with a collar dancettee Azure.
Escutcheon
Argent on a fess dancettee Azure thre fleurs de lis of the field on a canton Gules a lion rampant reguardant Or.
Motto
Murus Aeneus Conscientia Saua

References
  1. "Ireland". The Times. No. 36845. London. 13 August 1902. p. 5.
  2. "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. J". National Library of Ireland. p. 193. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  • Foster, J. W. and Chesney, H. C. G (eds.), 1977. Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History. Lilliput Press. ISBN 0-7735-1817-7.
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