52-year-old Patrick Grant is a renowned Savile Row king, fashion designer and co-judge of The Great British Sewing Bee, a show which sees amateur sewers compete to be named Britain's best home sewer. He now takes up residence in Lancashire but that’s not where it all began, read his story so far below..
Advertisement Advertisement Early life Sign up to our daily newsletter Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Lancaster Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Born in Edinburgh to Scottish parents, Patrick attended primary and secondary school in the Scottish capital before becoming a boarding pupil at Barnard Castle School in Durham and later a student of material sciences at Leeds University. Following graduation, he relocated to the United States where he worked as a ski instructor, counsellor at a summer camp, a nanny, a landscape gardener, and a model agent.
Patrick then returned to Britain in 1995, aged 23 to take up a career in marketing, first at cable-makers BICC and Corning then optical components manufacturer Bookham Technology in 2000. Between 2004 and 2005, Grant studied for an MBA degree at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and his thesis concerned the regeneration of luxury fashion brands, being titled "Is Burberry's formula for brand revitalisation replicable?". Advertisement Advertisement Fashion career Whilst studying his MBA, Patrick learned that the bespoke tailor Norton & Sons was for sale and by Dece.
