Patrick Selim Atiyah was born on 5 March 1931.
[1] He was a son of the Lebanese writer Edward Atiyah and his Scottish wife Jean.
[1] The mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah was his older brother.
[2] Patrick attended secondary school at Woking County Grammar School for Boys and went on to read law at Magdalen College, Oxford.
[2][additional citation(s) needed] He died on 30 March 2018.