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 1 st 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 30 th 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...