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Not to be confused with Robert Pattinson.

Sir Robert Pattinson, JP (1872 – 4 December 1954) was the Chairman of Kesteven County Council for 20 years and briefly a Liberal MP.

Family and education

The son of William and Anne Pattinson of Ruskington,[1] Robert was educated at Carre's Grammar School in Sleaford and privately.[2] He married Catherine Lucy Pratt (died 1917), daughter of Henry Pratt of Lincoln in 1895. There were two sons and one daughter of the marriage: Henry Pattinson (died 1941), a captain in the Indian Army; W. P. Pattinson, a solicitor and coroner for the Lincoln South District; and a daughter, who married C. M. Richardson, of Salisbury.[1][2]

His brother Samuel Pattinson (1870–1942) and his sister's husband Richard Winfrey (1858–1944) were both Liberal MPs; Samuel for Horncastle from 1922–24 and Richard for South West Norfolk from 1906–23, he also represented Gainsborough from 1923–24.

Career

Pattinson was a railway contractor and a Director of Pattinson & Co. Ltd (Builders Merchants) of Sleaford.[3]

Politics

Lincolnshire politics

Pattinson became chairman of the Ruskington Urban District Council in 1900. He was elected to Kesteven County Council in 1904, became an alderman in 1911 and served as its vice-chairman from 1923 until he was elected chairman in 1934,[1] the year he was knighted.[2] Pattinson served on the Lincolnshire County Committee for 50 years, and as chairman of the Witham and Steeping Rivers Catchment Board when it was formed in 1931; after World War II, he was appointed chairman of Lincolnshire River Board,[1][4] and was appointed to be one of the original members of the River Board Areas Consultative Committee and a member Central Transport Board for Great Britain, 1948–54.[5][6] Pattinson also served as the first chairman of the Lincolnshire Archives Committee,[7] as a Justice of the Peace (for Kesteven from 1900 and Lindsey from 1930), and Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire.[1][8] He was appointed the county's High Sheriff in 1941.[9]

Parliamentary politics

In 1898, Pattinson became chairman of the Sleaford Parliamentary Division Liberal Association, serving until 1918.[1] He was first chosen as Liberal candidate for Sleaford division in 1914.[10] At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party,[11] but was elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Colonel Edmund Royds with a majority of 425 votes.[12] However, at the 1923 general election he was defeated by the Conservative candidate Victor Warrender.[11]

Pattinson stood unsuccessfully for Lincoln in 1929 and in 1931 (the latter time as a Liberal National).[1] In 1937 he was suggested as a possible candidate at the Holland with Boston by-election. As a well-known local man he was thought to be an acceptable candidate to both Liberal and Conservative Associations in the division. In fact he was reported to be the preferred candidate of the local Conservatives.[13] The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir James Blindell, who had captured the seat for the Liberals in a by-election in 1929 and had later joined the Liberal Nationals. In the end Herbert Butcher of Peterborough, Chairman of the East Midlands Liberal National Area Council was chosen as the National Government candidate.[14] Pattinson himself later formally joined the Liberal Nationals.[15]

Death

Pattinson died at his home, The Fosse House, in Lincoln on 2 December 1954 at the age of 82 years.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Sir Robert Pattinson dies at his home, aged 82", Grantham Journal, 10 December 1954, p. 7
  2. ^ a b c d "Sir Robert Pattinson", The Times, 4 December 1954
  3. ^ Who was Who, OUP 2007
  4. ^ The Times, 2 November 1944
  5. ^ The Times, 1 September 1948
  6. ^ The Commercial Motor, Vol 98; Temple Press, 1953 p634
  7. ^ The Lincolnshire Historian; Lincolnshire Local History Society, 1954 p45
  8. ^ Who was Who, OUP 2007
  9. ^ The London Gazette, 28 March 1941 (issue 35119), p. 1802
  10. ^ Grantham Journal, 21 March 1914
  11. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 415. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  12. ^ The Times, 27 November 1923
  13. ^ The Times,31 May 1937
  14. ^ The Times, 22 May 1937
  15. ^ The Times, 23 June 1938, 10 December 1938
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