Sir Robert Pattinson

Sir Robert Pattinson (1872 - 4 December 1954) was the Chairman of Kesteven County Council for 20 years and briefly a Liberal MP.

Family and education

The son of William Pattinson of Ruskington, Robert was educated at Carre's Grammar School in Sleaford and privately. He married Catherine Lucy Pratt, daughter of Henry Pratt of Lincoln in 1895. There were two sons and one daughter of the marriage.

His brother Samuel Pattinson (1870–1942) and his sister's husband Richard Winfrey (1858–1944) were both Liberal MPs; Samuel for Horncastle from 1922–24 and Richard for South West Norfolk from 1906–23, he also represented Gainsborough from 1923-24.

Career

Pattinson was a railway contractor and a Director of Pattinson & Co. Ltd (Builders Merchants) of Sleaford.

Politics

Lincolnshire politics

For 50 years, Pattison was a member of Kesteven County Council, becoming its Chairman in 1934, the year he was knighted, and serving as Chairman until his death in 1954. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1941. He served as Chairman of the Witham & Steeping Rivers Catchment Board and was appointed to be one of the original members of the River Board Areas Consultative Committee and a member Central Transport Board for Great Britain, 1948-54. He was an Alderman of Kesteven County Council and the first chairman of the Lincolnshire Archives Committee He also served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the county.

Robert Pattinson

Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model, musician and producer.

Pattinson started his film career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a 2005 fantasy film. He later got the leading role of vampire Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer, which consisted of five films between 2008 and 2012 that combined grossed over $3.3 billion in worldwide receipts. Twilight brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him among the highest paid and most bankable actors in Hollywood. In 2010, Pattinson was named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, and also in the same year Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful celebrities in the world in the Forbes Celebrity 100.

In 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. That same year, a documentary film, Robsessed, about the actor's fame and popularity, was released. He appeared as a troubled young man in Remember Me (2010) and also starred in a romantic drama, Water for Elephants (2011). His performance as a tough, cold-hearted and calculating billionaire in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis (2012), earned him critical praise. He gained critical appreciation for his performances in David Michod's futuristic western The Rover (2014), in Cronenberg's satire drama Maps to the Stars (2014), in Werner Herzog's biopic film Queen of the Desert (2015) and in Anton Corbijn's Life (2015), a drama film about Life Magazine photographer Dennis Stock and James Dean. He will appear in James Gray's The Lost City of Z, about an explorer who disappeared in the Amazon while looking for an ancient city.