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Lydia Patterson

former High Sheriff of Belfast

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ131442811 ↗
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Sarah Lydia Patterson (born February 1958 - 1 February 2025) was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was High Sheriff of Belfast from January 2014 to 2015, and a Belfast City Councillor for the Castle DEA from 2010 to 2019.

Background

Patterson was an unsuccessful Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) candidate at the 2005 City Council election, running in the Castle District.

She was later co-opted to the council in May 2010, succeeding long-serving Castle representative, Nigel Dodds. She was re-elected in 2011.

In November 2013, Patterson was nominated to be the next High Sheriff of Belfast, taking office in January 2014.

She was subsequently re-elected in the May 2014 Council election.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lydia Patterson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.