Irvine Patnick
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Sir Cyril Irvine Patnick OBE |
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| Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam |
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In office 11 June 1987 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | John Osborn |
| Succeeded by | Richard Allan |
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29 October 1929 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 30 December 2012 (aged 83) Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Religion | Judaism |
Sir Cyril Irvine Patnick OBE (29 October 1929 – 30 December 2012) was a British businessman and former Conservative Party politician.
He was knighted in 1994.
The second of four sons born to Aaron Michael Patnick and Bessie (née Levin) Patnick in Sheffield, he was educated in Sheffield at the Central Technical School followed by Sheffield Polytechnic. A building contractor, Patnick entered politics as a member of Sheffield City Council in 1967 and later of South Yorkshire County Council.
After unsuccessfully contesting Sheffield Hillsborough at the 1970 and 1979 general elections, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam in 1987. During his time as an MP he was a Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury and deputy Chairman of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Select Committee. He left politics after he lost his seat in the 1997 general election to the Liberal Democrat Richard Allan.
Patnick was on the right wing of the Conservative Party. He was against sanctions on apartheid South Africa, voted to reintroduce the death penalty, strongly supported Section 28 and, in a similar vein, opposed reducing the age of consent for homosexuals. He coined the phrase 'People's Republic of South Yorkshire' in reference to the policies of the Sheffield City Council under the direction of David Blunkett.
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