| Authorised form of name | Pattinson; Hugh Lee (1796 - 1858); metallurgical chemist |
| Dates | 1796 - 1858 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Alston, Cumberland, England |
| Date of birth | 25 December 1796 |
| Place of death | His residence, Scot's House, Gateshead, County Durham, England |
| Date of death | 11 November 1858 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Washington, County Durham churchyard, England |
| Occupation | Industrial chemist |
| Research field | Industrial chemistry |
| Metallurgy |
| Activity | Education: Educated in small private schools and assisted his father in his shop, from an early age.
Career: Clerk and assistant to Anthony Clapham, a soap boiler in Newcastle (1821); joined Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle (1922); became lead assay master to the lords of the manor at Alston (the Greenwich Hospital commissioners) (1825); cpnducted experiments in metallurgy, discovering the basis of his method of separating silver from lead but lack of money prevented him from pursuing this further (1829); appointed works manager at Thomas Wentworth Beaumont's lead works (1831) which enabled him to continue his experiments on refining silver until he established a workable process; resigned from Beaumont's works and set up a new chemical works at Felling, near Gateshead with John Lee and George Burnett (1834); patented two chemical processes, for making lead carbonate, and for manufacturing a white magnesium oxide, referref to as"magnesia alba"(1841); patendted his process for making a new white lead pigment, lead oxychloride (1849); established a chamical company with his partners, and brothers in law, at Washington, County Durham (1850).
Memberships:
FGS
RAS
VP of the chemical section of the British Association |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1852 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| Proposer | John Frederick William Herschel; Henry Thomas de la Beche; Michael Faraday; John Taylor; Lyon Playfair; Thomas Graham; William Allen Miller; Golding Bird; John Stenhouse; Thomas Sopwith |
| Relationships | Parents: Thomas Pattinson, a shopkeeper, and Margaret Lee, both were Quakers.
Spouse: Phoebe, daughter of John Walton of The Nest, Alston (1815)
Children: Three daughters; one son; two sons died before him.
Son-in-law: Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (FRS 1874); Robert Stirling Newall (FRS 1875) |
| OtherInfo | Known for silver refining process and daguerreotypes. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1857-1859 vol 9 pp 534-535 |
| Code | NA2813 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1852/09 | Pattinson, Hugh Lee: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/26/106 | Letter from [John Allen] Harker, The National Physical Laboratory, Bushy House, Teddington, Middlesex, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society | 13 January 1911 |
| HS/14/145 | Letter, from Hugh Lee Pattinson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 12 February 1852 |
| HS/14/146 | Incomplete letter, from Hugh Lee Pattinson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 21 February 1852 |