Background
MAYHEW, Rt. Hon. Sir Patrick Barnabas Burke was born on September 11, 1929. Parents: A.G.H. Mayhew and Sheila M. B. Mayhew (née Roche).
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
MAYHEW, Rt. Hon. Sir Patrick Barnabas Burke was born on September 11, 1929. Parents: A.G.H. Mayhew and Sheila M. B. Mayhew (née Roche).
Tonbridge School; Balliol College, Oxford. Middle Temple; spoken languages: French.
Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells, since 1974. Vice-chairman, Conservative Home Affairs Committee, 1976. Executive, 1922 Committee, 1976-1979.
Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment, 1979-1981. Minister of State at the Home Office, 1981-1983. Solicitor-General, 1983-1987.
Attorney-General, 1987-1992. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Captain, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, National Service.
Barrister, 1955; Queen’s Counsel, 1972.
Anglican.
conservative Party
Spouse Jean Elizabeth Gurney, 1963. Children: four s.