24 Facts About Patrick Wall

Patrick Wall was the Member of Parliament for Haltemprice in the East Riding of Yorkshire and subsequently for Beverley, over a period spanning 33 years.

Patrick Wall was a leading figure in the Conservative Monday Club, and a parliamentary consultant to the Western Goals Institute.

The son of Henry Benedict Wall, Patrick Wall was educated at Downside School.

Patrick Wall was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1935 and qualified as a naval gunnery instructor.

Patrick Wall is a very devout man, and draws real inspiration from his Roman Catholic religion.

Patrick Wall was awarded the Military Cross in the North-West Europe campaign, and was awarded the US Legion of Merit the same year, for his services during the invasion operations in northern Italy and the south of France.

Patrick Wall taught at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1946, and the Joint Services Staff College from 1947 to 1948.

Patrick Wall spent a further two years on the staff of the Commandant-General, RM.

Patrick Wall was promoted to the rank of major in 1949, and decided to leave the Royal Marines the following year in order to enter politics.

Patrick Wall continued his naval connection as Commander of 47 Commando Royal Marines Voluntary Reserve from 1951 to 1957, and from 1950 to 1966, was Commissioner of the Sea Scouts for London.

In 1953, Patrick Wall married Sheila Elizabeth, daughter of James Putnam, of Broadstone, Dorset.

Patrick Wall was a councillor on the City of Westminster Council from 1953 to 1963.

Patrick Wall defended the British colonial record and was convinced of the benefits of white rule in Rhodesia and South Africa.

Patrick Wall was a friend of the Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, and fully supported him.

Patrick Wall believed that white rule in Southern Africa was the last bulwark against the spread of communism in the region, which he described as "this evil virus".

Patrick Wall argued that this, in turn, would mean that the West would lose vital mineral supplies and that the oil route round the Cape would come under threat.

Patrick Wall was especially suspicious of the Foreign Office, which he believed had contributed to Britain's decline.

Patrick Wall collaborated on many papers and publications for the club, and spoke for club policies and concerns in the House of Commons.

Patrick Wall became a target for the Left and was denounced by the Marxist-led National Union of Students.

In 1968, he was attacked at Leeds University and Mrs Patrick Wall was knocked to the ground and kicked.

Patrick Wall was presented with a Fellowship Certificate of the Chartered Institute of Journalists at a formal reception for the occasion, held at the National Liberal Club, London, on Wednesday 12 July 1989.

Patrick Wall was one of a number of Tory MPs associated with Radio 270, an offshore radio station broadcasting off the Yorkshire coast in the 1960s.

On 11 May 1967 the station gave Conservative candidates in local elections at Scarborough airtime which the candidates had paid for themselves, and on 14 May it broadcast a programme made by the York University branch of the Monday Club, in which Patrick Wall spoke on Rhodesia.

From 1976 until its success in 1981, Patrick Wall was a strong supporter of the campaign for the legalisation of Citizens' Band Radio in the UK, and was one of the most influential members of the House of Commons ad hoc committee on CB.