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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 545

Pair: Lieutenant M. W. Patrick, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, a member of The Ulster Unionist Party & MP who was succeeded by Ian Paisley

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. M. W. Patrick.), mounted as worn, polished, the reverse of the VM all but obliterated, thus fair (2)

Malcolm William Patrick was born at Gledheather, Dunminning on 15 August 1882, youngest son of John Patrick, D.L.. He married Elizabeth Frankland Haughton, only daughter of Mr T.W. Haughton, in the Craigs Parish Church, Cullybackey, on 15 April 1909.

During the Great War Patrick served in France as an Inspector of Ordnance Machinery with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps from February 1917.

Returned home and taking a keen interest in the political theatre, in 1939 he was selected as the Ulster Unionist candidate for the Bannside Division of County Antrim, in the Northern Ireland Parliament, in succession to the late Rt. Hon. G.C.G. Young, M.B.E. He held this seat from the 10 November 1939-September 1946.

An engineer by trade, in addition to being a farmer and a Director of the Braidwater Spinning Company, Patrick was Locomotive Superintendent of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. He was also a Member of the Antrim County Council, a Member of the Ballymena Regional Education Committee. Other bodies on which he served were the Tuberculosis Committee and the Blind Persons Committee.

Patrick was also a Life Member and Past Captain of the Royal Portrush Golf Club and was a member of the Masonic Order, being a member of Maine Valley Lodge 492, Cullybackey, and Masonic Lodge No 431, Ballymena. For many years Patrick acted as secretary of Patrick's Chosen Few L.O.L., Dunminning and was a member of the committee of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. As a member of the Select Vestry of Craigs Parish Church he took a deep and practical interest in the affairs of the church in which he worshipped.

Aged sixty-four, this kindly, good natured gentleman, passed away on 17 September 1946 at his home in Duneoin after a brief illness and was laid to rest in the graveyard adjoining the Craigs Parish Church. His place in the Parliament was succeeded by Ian Paisley; sold together with copied MIC and research.


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£130

Starting price
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