Pat McCormick (firist)

**William Patrick Glyn McCormick** DSO (14 ga Yuni 1877 — 16 ga Oktoba 1940) ɗan wasan kurket ne na Ingila, ɗan wasan rugby kuma limamin coci.

Ɗan Rabaran Joseph McCormick, an haife shi a Hull a watan Yunin 1877. Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Cathedral da ke Llandaff da kuma Makarantar Exeter Cathedral . Daga nan ya tafi Kwalejin St John, Cambridge .  Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Cambridge a shekarar 1899, McCormick ya fara samun aiki a matsayin mataimakin master a Makarantar Rose Hill da ke Tunbridge Wells . Duk da haka, a shekarar 1900 ya ci gaba da aikin coci a Cocin Ingila kuma aka naɗa shi diakoni a Cathedral ta Rochester . An naɗa shi ma'aikacin coci a Shooter's Hill da ke Kent a shekarar 1901, kafin ya tafi Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 1902 inda ya kasance limamin coci a watannin ƙarshe na Yaƙin Boer na Biyu .  Ya shafe shekaru goma masu zuwa a Afirka ta Kudu, inda ya riƙe muƙaman vicar a Cleveland, Transvaal daga 1903 zuwa 1910, da kuma reverend a yankin Johannesburg na Belgravia daga 1910 zuwa 1914.  A lokacin ziyarar da ya kai Ingila a 1907, McCormick ya bayyana a wasan kurket na aji na farko ga ƙungiyar Cricket ta Marylebone (MCC) da Leicestershire a Lord's .  Ya buga sau biyu a wasan, John King ya kore shi na tsawon gudu 17 a zagayen farko na MCC, yayin da a zagaye na biyu na wasan William Odell ya kore shi ba tare da ya zura kwallo ba .  Ƙwarewarsa ta wasanni ta ƙara bayyana a Afirka ta Kudu, inda ya buga wasan rugby na Transvaal a gasar cin kofin Currie, inda abokan hamayya za su yi ƙoƙarin cin galaba a kan McCormick ta hanyar zagi da zagin da ke kewaye da shi a yunƙurin ɓata masa rai. Kwarewarsa a matsayin ɗan wasan rugby ya sa aka zaɓe shi cikin tawagar da za su yi rangadin ƙungiyar rugby ta Afirka ta Kudu a Turai a tsakanin shekarun 1906 zuwa 1907, amma bai yi tafiya tare da ƙungiyar ba bayan an gano cewa bai cika ka'idojin zama don zaɓe ba. 

A farkon Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya a watan Yulin 1914, McCormick ya koma Ingila don yin aiki a yaƙin a matsayin limamin coci. An haɗa shi da Rundunar Lafiya ta Sojojin Sama, yana taimakawa wajen kwashe waɗanda suka ji rauni daga Yaƙin Farko na Ypres . Ya yi abubuwa da yawa don ƙarfafa gwiwar sojojin Burtaniya kuma ya yi tasiri wajen shawo kan sojoji su aika da ƙarin motocin asibiti zuwa Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Burtaniya . Daga baya a yaƙin, an tura shi a matsayin babban limamin coci a Brigade na 3rd Guards daga 1915 zuwa 1917, wanda ya kawo shi ga Yarima Wales, kafin a naɗa shi mataimakin limamin coci daga 1917 zuwa 1918. [1] [2] An ba McCormick Dokar Sabis Mai Kyau a cikin Babban Daraja na Sabuwar Shekara ta 1917, [3] ban da ambaton sa a cikin aika-aika sau huɗu. [4] Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ƙarshen yaƙin, ya zama mataimakin limamin coci a Boulogne . [1] Da ya koma Ingila a shekarar 1919, an naɗa McCormick shugaban ƙauyen Croydon kuma daga baya aka naɗa shi shugaban cocin Canterbury a shekarar 1924. An naɗa shi vicar na St Martin-in-the-Fields a shekarar 1927 kuma aka naɗa shi limamin cocin George V a shekara mai zuwa, [4] a madadin marigayi Arthur James Mason . [5] A St Martin-in-the-Fields, ya yi abubuwa da yawa don taimaka wa marasa gida da talakawa. [2] A cikin shekarun 1930, yana yin wa'azi akai-akai a Rediyon BBC kuma shi ne limamin coci na farko da ya bayyana a talabijin na Burtaniya. [1] McCormick ya mutu a Westminster a watan Oktoba na 1940. [6] Ɗan'uwansa shi ne Joseph Gough McCormick, shugaban cocin Manchester a rabin farko na shekarun 1920.