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Alexander Patrick jr
Edinburgh
Alex Patrick was the nephew of the famous Leven clubmaker of the same name and learned his clubmaking skills at that firm.

He left for Edinburgh around 1908, and went into business with Robert Bell Martin. They built up a network to sell the clubs they made as Martin and Patrick with, among others, Elverys in Dublin and London and Meldrum, the department store in Dundee selling their products. They did not just make clubs: they, for example, carried out a feasibility study for a potential course in Cramond.

But something was not right. Within a year the partnership was dissolved, Martin going on to form Martin and Kirkaldy and Patrick carrying on alone. In December of 1908, Patrick was sequestrated. In February of the following year he explained to the examiner in bankruptcy that the business was ‘just solvent’ when he took it over but his only assets were the stock in hand and ‘creditors …. seemed to make a rush for him’. At the time he had seven men and two boys working there.

The hearing was adjourned but Patrick clearly lived to fight another day. The firm continued operating from 122 Rose Street and in 1911 he was advertising the production of his Perfector golf club which, on the woods, had a patented short scare. The business continued until his death in 1923 at which point it was offered as a going concern

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