[3] He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate before going up to Pembroke College, Oxford.
[4] After graduating in 1882 he entered the Church of England, acting as a curate in Chatham between 1883 and 1887, Camberley from 1887 to 1888 and in Bournemouth from 1889.
He was the younger brother of William Patterson who captained Kent between 1890 and 1893.
[4][5] Patterson died at Woking in Surrey in 1943 aged 83.
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