Percival Noel James Patterson,
ON,
PC,
QC,
OE (born 10 April 1935), is a former Jamaican politician who served as the sixth
Prime Minister of
Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He was the leader of the
People's National Party from 1992 to 2006 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Westmoreland South Eastern from 1970 to
1980 when he lost to the
Jamaica Labour Party Euphemia Williams, and again from 1989 to 1993. Following a constituency reorganization, he served as the MP for Westmoreland Eastern from 1993 to 2006. He retired from all of these positions in March 2006. He was married to Shirley Field-Riley (d. 1982) with whom he had two children, Richard and Sharon.