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William Patterson
Obituary of William Patterson, soldier, preacher, psychoanalyst, SNP candidate, businessman; born July 27, 1927; died September 12, 2007.Bill Patterson, who has died on the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu aged 80, was a schoolboy international football player, a teenage captain in the Army, a lay preacher, psychoanalyst, SNP candidate and businessman.
Born in Lauriston, near Falkirk, Patterson lived a long, fulfilling and varied life. Brought up strictly as a coal miner's son in a Plymouth Brethren home, he was the younger brother of the author and journalist George "Patterson of Tibet" Patterson and his sister, Margaret Lightbody.
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