Senior UK leather industry figure dies
14/08/2015
He attended Leeds University and qualified as a leather chemist in the early 1950s. His business career started in Northampton when he began working as a leather technician for the Stimpson Perkins Group. He then joined the William Clarke Currying Company based in Margate, Kent, to develop new leathers for the footwear market both at home and abroad.
In the early 1970s, Pat became managing director of the Midland Leather Company Limited in Rochdale, supplying major shoe companies such as Startrite and Clarks Shoes with chrome-tanned upper leathers.
He was elected president of the British Leather Federation (as it was then known) in 1978 and always considered this to be a great honour. Soon after, Midland Leather was acquired by Pittards and absorbed by Miers of Leeds. Pat became managing director of Miers in 1981. After his retirement in 1993, he was often recalled as a consultant to Pittards.
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