Patrick was for some years usher (second master) at Charterhouse School.
from the University of St. Andrews and took holy orders, but received no preferment.
[1] Patrick was deeply if narrowly read, and gained reputation as a scholar by his Terence's Comedies translated into English prose as near as the propriety of the two languages will admit, London, 1745, 2 vols., and his edition of Robert Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, London, 1746.
[1] George Colman the Elder slighted the Terence translation as designed for school students.
[1] Patrick was one of the collaborators of George Thompson (died 1739), of Tottenham School,[3] in the preparation of his Apparatus ad Linguam Græcam ordine novo digestus, London, 1732.