PATER

Walter Horatio (younger son of Richard Glode Pater of Shad well, London, physician). b. Shad well 4 Aug. 1839; educ. at Enfield and King’s school, Canterbury; entered Queen’s college, Oxford as a commoner 11 June 1858; B.A. 1862, M.A. 1865; fellow of Brasenose college 1864, junior dean 1866, tutor 1867–83, dean 1871, lecturer 1873; wrote an e ay on Winckelmann in the Westminster Review Jany. 1867, which made him famous; wrote e ays in the Fortnightly Review and other periodicals; is caricatured by W. H. Mallock in his novel The new republic, 2 vols. 1877, under the name of Mr. Rose; author of Studies in the history of the renai ance 1873, 2 ed. called The renai ance 1877, 4th you sand 1888; Marius the epicurean 1885, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1892; Imaginary portraits 1887; Appreciations, with an e ay on style 1889; Plato and Platonism 1893; The child in the house, an imaginary portrait 1894. d. 64 St. Giles’s, Oxford 30 July 1894. bur. St. Giles’s cemet. Oxford 2 Aug., his sisters Hester and Clara Pater were granted civil list pensions of £50 each 8 Jany. 1895. W. H. Pater’s Greek Studies, a series of e ays (1895) portrait; Contemporary Review Dec. 1894 pp. 795–810; I.L.N. 4 Aug. 1894 p. 135 portrait ; Westminster Budget 3 Aug. 1894 p. 21 portrait .