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. Pattinson also served as the first chairman of the Lincolnshire Archives Committee, as a Justice of the Peace (for Kesteven from 1900 and Lindsey from 1930), and Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1941. Parliament In 1898, Pattinson became chairman of the Sleaford Division Liberal Association, serving until 1918. He was first chosen as Liberal candidate for Sleaford division in 1914. At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party. He was elected for Grantham at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP, Edmund Royds by a majority of 425 votes. However, at the 1923 general election he was defeated by the new Conservative candidate Victor Warrender. Pattinson stood unsuccessfully for Lincoln at the general election in 1929. In 1937 he was suggested as a possible National government candidate at the Holland with Boston by-election. As a well-known local man he was thought to be an acceptable candidate to both local Liberal and Conservative Associations. In fact he was reported to be the preferred candidate of the local Conservatives. The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir James Blindell. He 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. Pattinson himself later formally joined the Liberal Nationals. a endorsed by Coalition Government Death Pattinson died at his home, The Fosse House, in Lincoln on 2 December 1954 at the age of 82 years. See also Sir Robert Pattinson Academy References External links Category:1872 births Category:1954 deaths Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1922–1923 Category:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) politicians Category:People from Ruskington Category:Councillors in Lincolnshire Category:Politics of Grantham Category:People educated at Carre's Grammar School Category:High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire Category:Knights Bachelor