Robert Lloyd Patterson
# Robert Lloyd Patterson

Sir Robert Lloyd Patterson (1836–1906) was an Irish naturalist and linen merchant.

## Biography

Patterson was the second son of Robert Patterson F.R.S. In August 1902, he was awarded a knighthood for services to the Belfast Chamber of Commerce. Robert Lloyd Patterson wrote several zoological papers in the Irish Naturalist and the Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and a book titled The Birds, Fishes and Cetacea of Belfast Lough (1880). On his death Robert Lloyd Patterson bequeathed his art collection to the Belfast Corporation. It is now in the Ulster Museum.

## Arms

Coat of arms of Robert Lloyd Patterson :

* NotesConfirmed 30 March 1901 by Sir Arthur Vicars, Ulster King of Arms.
* CrestOn a wreath of the colours a pelican in her piety vulning herself Proper gorged with a collar dancettee Azure.
* EscutcheonArgent on a fess dancettee Azure thre fleurs de lis of the field on a canton Gules a lion rampant reguardant Or.
* MottoMurus Aeneus Conscientia Saua
