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{{Short description|British businessman (1930–2019)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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'''Sir Patrick Sheehy''' (2 September 1930 – 23 July 2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/07/24/sir-patrick-sheehy-businessman-consolidated-fortunes-british/|title=Sir Patrick Sheehy, businessman who consolidated the fortunes of British-American Tobacco and fought off a hostile takeover bid – obituary|first=Telegraph|last=Obituaries|date=24 July 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> was a British businessman who was chairman of [[British American Tobacco]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Debrett's People of Today|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today-profile?person=14278|accessdate=20 February 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923215058/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today-profile?person=14278|archivedate=2015-09-23}}</ref> In 1992, he was appointed chairman of the [[Sheehy Inquiry|Inquiry into Police Responsibilities and Rewards]] (known as the Sheehy Inquiry), charged with reviewing police services in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-sheehy-inquiry-police-jobs-for-life-culture-swept-away-by-inquiry-rank-and-file-representative-says-authors-of-sheehy-report-understand-little-or-nothing-about-policing-1482064.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-sheehy-inquiry-police-jobs-for-life-culture-swept-away-by-inquiry-rank-and-file-representative-says-authors-of-sheehy-report-understand-little-or-nothing-about-policing-1482064.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Sheehy Inquiry: Police 'jobs for life' culture swept away by inquiry: Rank and file representative says authors of Sheehy report understand little or nothing about policing|last=Kirby|first=Terry|date=1 July 1993|work=The Independent|accessdate=20 February 2014}}</ref>

He was knighted in the [[1991 New Year Honours]].

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