Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick KBE, AM, DL (12 April 1930 – 8 January 2003), was an Irish peer, banker and public servant.
As he left Oxford, his father Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, told him "You have unfortunately been born with a prefix to your name, and unless you get an equivalent number of suffixes people will assume you are a fool".
[1] In August 1967, on the death of his father, he inherited his seat in the House of Lords and his estate in County Limerick, including the remains of Dromore Castle.
In 1970, the prime minister, Edward Heath, called Limerick and asked "On the assumption that you were willing to become member of the Conservative party, would you be prepared to serve in the government?"
In that capacity Pat Limerick led the transformation of the ABCC and raised it to a level of national influence at which it was effectively competing with, and sometimes eclipsing, the much younger Confederation of British Industry.