Patrick Brian Pottle (8 August 1938 – 1 October 2000), a long-time anti-war campaigner, was a founding member of the Committee of 100, an anti-nuclear direct action group which broke away from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). He was one of five brothers. Born in Maida Vale, his mother was from an Irish Catholic family and his father was a Protestant trades union official.[1]