William Partridge

William Patrick Partridge (8 March 1874 – 26 July 1917) was an Irish trade unionist and revolutionary socialist. He was a prominent member of James Connolly's Irish Citizen Army, and fought in the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916. He later served as a Dublin City Councillor.

Early life Partridge was born in Sligo in 1874; his family lived at 6 Chapel Street after first living in West Gardens. His father, Benjamin Partridge, was an English train driver who moved to Ireland for work, and his mother, Ellen Hall, was an Irish Catholic. His older brother, Felix Partridge (1872–1957), became a noted playwright. The family moved after a short time and he was brought up in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon. He was apprenticed at 17 as a mechanical fitter with the Midland & Great Western Railway in Sligo. He was a keen writer from an early age and contributed stories and poems to a magazine called The Shamrock.

Partridge established the Inchicore branch of the Gaelic League. He was an organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, and worked with Jim Larkin to set up union branches outside Dublin. Politically, he was elected to Dublin City Council in 1906 and 1913 as a Sinn Féin councillor. Patridge was one of the leading figures during the 1913 Great Lockout. Countess Markievicz gave the oration at his graveside where she fired a salute over the grave with her own pistol. She described him as the "purest-souled and noblest patriot Ireland ever had".