Selected Biography

Partridge, Robert Wickham – Born: Chelmsford, Essex on 3.1.1908.[1]  Parents: Frank Partridge of Kersey, Suffolk (Farm Bailiff) and Florence Esther [née Tozer].  Home: Patching Hall, Chelmsford, Essex (1911), Glenmore, Portishead, Somerset (1921), Mon Abri, Tendring Road, Beaumont-cum-Mose, Essex [1930 ER], 35 Halbutt Street, Dagenham, Essex [1930 ER], 373 Straight Road, Shrut End, Colchester, Essex (1939), Long Melford [1963].  Occupation: Elementary School Teacher (1939), Headteacher of Long Melford Primary School [1963].[2]  Married: Ethel Ravenscroft in 1938.  Service Record: Robert was an Air Raid Precaution Warden in Colchester during the Second World War.[3]  Newspaper Record: Between 1973 and 1980 Robert Partridge was the Suffolk County Council member for Glemsford and Long Melford.[4]  Died: Ipswich, Suffolk in 1990 and buried in St. Mary’s Churchyard, Kersey, Suffolk.

Notes – [1] 1939 Register.  [2] Suffolk Free Press 14.3.1963.  [3] 1939 Register.  [4] See articles in the Haverhill Echo 22.11.1973 and 15.11.1973; Suffolk Free Press 31.10.1974, 6.11.1975, 21.9.1978, 16.11.1978 and 19.6.1980, and Bury Free Press 31.10.1975, 3.11.1978, 10.11.1978, 15.6.1979 and 9.11.1979.