Week 42 (Oct. 18-24): Sports

 Week 42 (Oct. 18-24): Sports

For this weeks theme of “sports” I am going to use the husband of my 1st cousin 1x removed. To some people he is a well-known “sports” person, but to others maybe not so much.

Patrick Partridge was a football referee and was the “referee who gave football’s first professional foul, and was one of the first high-profile officials of the games TV age”.

Patrick was born 30th June 1933 in Billingham, Stockton-on-tees. He was the son of Patrick and Catherine. In 1953 he started his career as a referee aged only 20years, for Durham FC. During his time of National Service he signed up as an Army Referee.

His “sports” career spanned many years and he received an award for 50years membership of the Referees' Association.

He married his wife Margaret in 1961 and by 1973 they were living on Margaret’s fathers farm and were running it. As well as running the farm and being a football referee, Patrick also took part in other “sports” namely golf.

As well as all of the above he became a local magistrate and was also linked to HMP Stockton-on-tees for many years.

Patrick died in 2014 aged 81years old and was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to football.

Sadly, I never met Patrick as my Dad (Peter Lackey) had lost contact with him and Margaret many years ago. However, I am in contact with Margaret now and hope to meet her in the near future.

More information linked to Patrick and his life as a referee can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Partridge  and information on his stats linked to matches can be found here: https://worldreferee.com/referee/patrick_partridge/


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