Granville Sharp Pattison
British anatomist
Granville Sharp Pattison (1791–1851) was a Scottish anatomist. Professor of Anatomy at London University, after losing two British positions, he emigrated permanently to the United States to be a professor at New York University.
Life
The youngest son of John Pattison of Kelvingrove, Glasgow, he was admitted as a member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1813. He acted in 1818 as assistant to Allan Burns, the lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Andersonian Institute; but he only held the post for a year, and was succeeded by William Mackenzie. Pattison resigned after a divorce case, involving the wife of Andrew Ure, a colleague at the Institute.
Pattison went to Philadelphia in 1818, and lectured privately on anatomy. There he quarrelled with Nathaniel Chapman. In 1820 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy, physiology, and surgery in the University of Maryland in Baltimore, a post he filled for five years and resigned, on grounds of ill-health. But he had been involved in another dispute, over the Fascia of Colles and his own research; and had fought a duel with General Thomas McCall Cadwalader, brother-in-law to Chapman, whom he wounded with a pistol shot.
Pattison returned to England in July 1827.
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