Gavin Patience
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Gavin Patience is a retired British solicitor who spent 35 years in general and commercial legal practice, including work in agricultural property, landed estates, and farm finance, and now volunteers with LawCare. [1]
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Career and work
Patience qualified as a solicitor in 1980 and practiced for about 35 years. His career included general and commercial law, private client work, agricultural property, landed estates, and farm finance. [1]
He was Senior Partner at Patience Clarke & Burrowes in Shrewsbury before moving into larger commercial practices, later working as a consultant in a national real estate practice. He also served as a visiting lecturer at Harper Adams University College. [3][1][2]
What has been publicly discussed
“In moments of depression, however, it was like being in a black, velvet clad, and lead-lined box.”
— Gavin Patience [1]