Reginald Patrick Ground QC, known as Patrick Ground (born 9 August 1932) was a British Conservative politician and barrister.

Political career

;Local level Ground served as a councillor on the

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from 1968 to 1971, representing the Parson's Green ward. In April 2015, he was selected locally to take the ceremonial role of president of the

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Conservative Association. ;Parliamentary level Ground stood as the Conservative candidate for the Feltham and Heston seat seven times, a constituency made up of the western half of the London Borough of Hounslow, between February 1974 and

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. He won the successive elections in

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and

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, but lost in 1992 to

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, the Labour Co-operative candidate. A

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, Ground spoke often on subjects of local government and planning. He advocated collectivist social advancement, opposing greater direct redistribution of income and wealth. As such, in the House of Commons, he argued strongly against measuring poverty primarily in relative terms, saying:

Legal career

His specialist area of advocacy is planning law and he was called to the Bar in 1960; he was appointed Queens Counsel in 1981.Patrick Ground QC
The Law Pages legal directory: barristers index. Accessed 2017-01-29 In 2015 he practised from his home address in Fulham.

Personal life and The Fulham Society

He married Caroline Dugdale in 1964. In the 1980s he chaired the cross-party Fulham Society, a residents' association and remained a vice president into the 2010s decade with three others: a younger MP of his party,

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MP (

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) and another former West London MP Lord Carrington.About the Society
The Fulham Society. Accessed 2017-01-29.

References

*''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Ltd, 1997 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ground, Patrick 1932 births Living people British King's Counsel Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Councillors in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham English barristers Presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association People educated at Beckenham and Penge County Grammar School 20th-century King's Counsel UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 __NOTOC__