David Patrick (writer)

David Patrick FRSE LLD (1849[1] – 22 March 1914) was a Scottish writer and editor.

His mother was Mary Barbour (b.1824),[2] He was educated at the Ayr Academy and then, planning to enter the Free Church of Scotland (as his father), attended the New College in Edinburgh, receiving the Cunningham Fellowship at the close of his four-year course.

Patrick subsequently studied theology at Tübingen, Berlin, Leipzig and Göttingen before eventually deciding on a literary career.

[3] He wrote the introduction to the later 1914 edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia shortly before his death on 22 March 1914.

[4] He had premises at 339 High Street on the Royal Mile and lived at 20 Mansionhouse Road in the Grange.