Paterson, Robert, the original of Scott's “Old Mortality,” a stone-mason, born near Hawick; devoted 40 years of his life to restoring and erecting monumental stones to the memory of the Scotch Covenanters (1712‒1801).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Paterculus, Marcus Velleius * Paterson, William