Patrick Ground


Reginald Patrick Ground, known as Patrick Ground QC is a British Conservative politician and barrister.

Political career

;Local level
Ground served as a councillor on the London Borough of Hammersmith 1968–1971, representing Parson's Green ward. In April 2015 he was selected locally to take the ceremonial role of president of the Feltham and Heston Conservative Association.
;Parliamentary level
Ground stood as the Conservative candidate for the Feltham and Heston seat seven times, a seat made up of the western half of the electorate of the London Borough of Hounslow, between February 1974 and 1997. He won the successive elections in 1983 and 1987. He lost in 1992 to Alan Keen. A backbencher, he 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. 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, Andy Slaughter MP and another former West London MP Lord Carrington.