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==Early life and career== Cormack was born to Thomas Charles Cormack, a local government officer and master mariner, and his wife Kathleen Mary Cormack in [[Grimsby]] just before the outbreak of the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=11 April 2024 |title=Lord Cormack obituary |newspaper= [[The Times]]|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/lord-cormack-obituary-death-8prxfrl0d |access-date=11 April 2024 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Cormack, Baron, (Patrick Thomas Cormack) (born 18 May 1939)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-11910|access-date=13 May 2021|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|date=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u11910|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |archive-date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513130334/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-11910|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Patrick Cormack (Hansard)|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-patrick-cormack/index.html|access-date=13 May 2021|website=api.parliament.uk|archive-date=22 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522031319/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-patrick-cormack/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He was educated locally at the [[St James School, Grimsby|St James's Choir School]] and the [[Havelock Academy|Havelock School]], before attending the [[University of Hull]], where he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1961. Cormack was a teacher at his former school, St James's Choir School, in 1961. Cormack contested the safe [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] parliamentary seat of [[Bolsover (UK Parliament constituency)|Bolsover]] at the [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964 general election]], where he lost to the sitting MP [[Harold Neal]], who won with a majority of 23,103 votes. At the [[1966 United Kingdom general election|1966 general election]], Cormack contested his hometown seat of [[Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)|Grimsby]], but again was defeated, this time by the [[secretary of state for education and science]], [[Anthony Crosland]], who had a majority of 8,126. Cormack became a training and education officer with Ross Ltd in 1966. In 1967, he was appointed an assistant house master at the [[Wrekin College]] in [[Wellington, Shropshire]], for two years, after which he became the head of history at [[Brewood Grammar School]] in 1969.<ref name=":0" /> Prior to 1970, Cormack was a member of the [[Bow Group]] and the [[Conservative Monday Club]], resigning from both at the end of 1971.<ref>Copping, Robert, ''The Story of The Monday Club β The First Decade'', Current Affairs Information Unit, London, April 1972: 21 & 28</ref>
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