Robert Patterson (naturalist, born 1802)

When his father died in 1831, Patterson took over management of the family business, eventually marrying Mary Ferrar, one of whose ancestors had come to Ireland as a captain in Schomburg's Horse regiment.

5, Chichester Street to form the Belfast Natural History Society, which established the first museum in Ireland to be built by public subscription, at No.

The Royal Society elected him a Fellow in 1859,[1] and he was an early member of the British Association, serving as secretary to the Natural History section.

Patterson, FRS, MRIA died at his house in College Square North, Belfast, in February, 1872, after a fall.

Patterson also prepared, for the Department of Science and Art, a series of large coloured diagrams, illustrated by Joseph Wolf.