Dr. Samuel Alexander Patrick, who represented the South-West Ward in the Christchurch City Council in 1888, was born in Manchester, England, in 1840. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, and studied for some time at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. He, however, changed his mind in that matter and returned to Manchester, where he studied medicine under Dr. Dumbell. In 1862 he passed his examination before the College of Surgeons (England), and a year later took his L.S.A. diploma. Dr. Patrick then practised his profession in Manchester until 1866, when, owing to failing health, he left for New Zealand, and landed at Lyttelton. He continued his professional work until 1884, when he went page 114 to England as surgeon in the steamship “Doric.” During his visit to Europe he received his diploma as M.D. of Vienna. He, however, returned to New Zealand broken in health, and died in Christchurch in 1894, after a lingering illness.