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British business executive (1956–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rose Emily Paterson (née Ridley; 13 August 1956 – 24 June 2020) was a British business executive, fundraiser, and the chairman of Aintree Racecourse.
Rose Paterson | |
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Born | Rose Emily Ridley 13 August 1956 Northumberland, England |
Died | 24 June 2020 63) Ellesmere, Shropshire, England | (aged
Alma mater | New Hall, Cambridge |
Title | Chairman, Aintree Racecourse |
Term | 2014–2020 |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | The 4th Viscount Ridley Lady Anne Katharine Gabrielle Lumley |
Relatives | Matt Ridley (brother) |
Rose Emily Paterson was born on 13 August 1956 in Northumberland.[1] She was the daughter of The 4th Viscount Ridley[2] and Lady Anne Lumley (the daughter of The 11th Earl of Scarbrough). Her great-grandfather was Sir Edwin Lutyens, through his daughter Ursula, and her uncle was Nicholas Ridley, a prominent Conservative cabinet minister in the Thatcher government. Her brother, Matt Ridley, is the 5th Viscount Ridley, and she had two other siblings.[1]
They lived near Seaton Burn at the family-owned Blagdon Estate. She was educated at Westfield School in Newcastle upon Tyne and West Heath Girls' School in Sevenoaks.[1] As a schoolgirl, she ran a book (acted as a bookmaker) on horse racing, and said "I made quite a killing".[2] After school she took a gap year, and then read history at New Hall, Cambridge, and attended an art history course in Venice.[1]
She worked for Sotheby's auction house, provided advice and valuations on artworks.[2] Following her husband's election as an MP in 1997, she was her husband's Shropshire-based personal assistant and office manager.[2]
In 2014, she was appointed chairman of Aintree Racecourse, and stood down from working for her husband in 2015.[2] She had been a racecourse committee director since 2005.[3] In 2014, she became the Jockey Club Racecourses' first female chairman, succeeding The 4th Baron Daresbury.[4]
She was appointed a member of the board of stewards at the Jockey Club, owners of Aintree, in 2019.[3][5]
In 1980, she married businessman and future Conservative cabinet minister Owen Paterson, son of Alfred Dobell Paterson and Cynthia M. Owen. [6][3] They had two sons and a daughter.[2] They lived at Shellbrook Hill in Ellesmere, Shropshire,[7][8] a grade II listed building since May 1953,[9] and Hillsborough Castle when Owen was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.[1]
Paterson contracted COVID-19 in 2020.[1] She was found dead in woods near her home that June; West Mercia Police treated her death as "unexplained", and it was not thought that any third party was involved.[6] She was 63.[2]
Her death was later ruled by a coroner to be suicide.[10] The Rose Paterson Trust was founded in her honour.[11]
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