Patrick Malone (British politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British Member of Parliament
Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1859
Place of Birth: Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 31-Dec-1939
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Patrick Malone (British politician)
- Major Sir Patrick Bernard Malone (17 March 1859 – 31 December 1939) was a British Conservative politician.Malone moved to Tottenham, Middlesex in the 1880s, a period when it was rapidly developing as a suburb of London.
- He became involved in the public life of the town and was elected to Tottenham Urban District Council and was a justice of the peace.
- He was also a member of the Lee Conservancy Board and of the Metropolitan Water Board, and he co-founded the Tottenham War Services Institute in 1920.In 1918 he was nominated to contest the new constituency of Tottenham South as the candidate of the Conservative Party.
- There was some confusion over his candidacy as he expected to be endorsed as the representative of the coalition government.
- However he failed to receive the coalition coupon due to differences among activists in the constituency.
- Both he and A E Hervey, a "Democratic Labour and Coalition" candidate fought the election as supporters of the government.
- They were opposed by Sir Leo Chiozza Money, the official Labour Party candidate and A.
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- Jay of the National Federation of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers.
- Malone won the seat, with a slim majority of 853 votes over Labour.
- At the next contest in 1922, Malone held the seat with an increased majority of 1,602 votes.
- However, a year later Percy Alden of the Labour Party unseated him.
- He regained the seat a year later, with a majority of 1,501 votes.
- At the next election in 1929, an increase in the Labour vote saw Malone lose the seat to Frederick Messer in a four-cornered contest, with Liberal and Communist candidates also taking part.Although the 1929 election saw the end of Malone's parliamentary career, he continued in local politics.
- When Tottenham was granted a charter of incorporation to become a borough in 1934, he was chosen as the town's first mayor.
- In the following year he was created the first honorary freeman of the borough.
- He was also a member of the Middlesex County Council, serving as an alderman from 1925 to 1937.
- In 1932 he was knighted "for political and public services".He was twice married: firstly to Mary Sabina Benkut of Bavaria, and secondly to Anetta Slater.
- He died in December 1939, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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