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My Take
Mayne is the kind of figure who sounds invented. A man from Newtownards who boxed at championship level, qualified as a solicitor, played rugby for Ireland and the British Lions, then helped found the SAS and earned the Legion of Honour and a Distinguished Service Order. What strikes me is the restless excellence of it, talent overflowing in every direction, paired with a life cut short at forty in a car crash. I admire him most for what the records only hint at: a man who seemed incapable of doing anything by halves, and who left a legend larger and quieter than his years.
Overview
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955), best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards. He was an amateur boxing champion, qualified as a solicitor and played rugby union for Ireland and the British Lions before becoming a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Paddy Mayne
- Name (Japanese)
- パディー・メイン
- Reading
- ぱでぃー・めいん
- Born
- January 11, 1915 – December 14, 1955
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rabbit
- Origin
- Newtownards, County Down, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- solicitor / rugby union player / military personnel / boxer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Queen's University Belfast
Awards & achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Distinguished Service Order
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20Mayne
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.