Chairman of the GLC Covent Garden Committee. Also Chairman of the GLC Viewing Subcommittee, which recommended films for censorship.
reported that "Dr Mark Patterson, the leading consultant convicted of conspiracy to steal blood from the National Heart Hospital in London, was gaoled for three years at the Old Baily yesterday." "Patterson had masterminded the racket in which blood supplied to the hospital by the Blood Transfusion Service and mainly the army, was stolen and valuable plasma extracted from it." His career and those of two other men convicted with him "now lay in ruins".
Patterson was described as aged 50, a consultant haematologist at the hospital, with a lucrative private practice, living at Cochrane Street, St John's Wood. He was a former Tory parliamentary candidate and ex-GLC councillor.
Mark Jonathan David Damien Lister Patterson was born on 2 March 1934 and in the 1939 England and Wales Register he was shown as 'at school' and living at 42 Wood Road, Cuckfield, Sussex.
He married Jane T. M. S. Stokes (b.1937) in the 4th quarter of 1958 in Marylebone Registration District, London. Electoral registers in 1961 listed him at Residential Staff Quarters, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, EC1. He was also listed from 1965 to 1972 in telephone directories at 32 Christchurch Hill, London, NW3.
According to the , in 1970 he was elected to the Greater London Council to represent Ealing. He did not contest the next GLC elections in 1973. He returned to the Greater London Council in 1977 as member for Chipping Barnet, standing down at the 1981 election. During his time on the GLC he was Chairman of the Film Censorship Committee and of the Covent Garden Development Committee. He also stood as a Conservative candidate for parliament without success.
dated 6 July 1984 reproduced by The Infected Blood Inquiry gives much detail about his illegal conspiracy to sell plasma to Denmark. He was as a doctor for one year following his conviction and it would appear that after his release from prison he continued to practice as a doctor in Truro, Cornwall. .
He is shown as 'DR. MARK PATTERSON. CHAIRMAN COVENT GARDEN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE' on the memorial plaque in the Covent Garden Piazza, London, WC2.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk and Andrew Behan.
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