Patrick Gordon Walker

The Lord Gordon-Walker
Gordon Walker in 1969
Secretary of State for Education and Science
In office
29 August 1967 – 6 April 1968
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byAnthony Crosland
Succeeded byEdward Short
Minister without Portfolio
In office
6 April 1966 – 29 August 1967
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byPeter Carington
Succeeded byGeorge Thomson
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
16 October 1964 – 22 January 1965
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byRab Butler
Succeeded byMichael Stewart
Shadow Foreign Secretary
In office
14 February 1963 – 16 October 1964
LeaderHarold Wilson
Preceded byHarold Wilson
Succeeded byRab Butler
Shadow Home Secretary
In office
13 May 1957 – 12 March 1962
LeaderHugh Gaitskell
Preceded byKenneth Younger
Succeeded byGeorge Brown
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
In office
28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byPhilip Noel-Baker
Succeeded byThe Lord Ismay
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
In office
7 October 1947 – 28 February 1950
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byArthur Bottomley
Succeeded byAngus Holden
Member of Parliament
for Leyton
In office
31 March 1966 – 8 February 1974
Preceded byRonald Buxton
Succeeded byBryan Magee
Member of Parliament
for Smethwick
In office
1 October 1945 – 25 September 1964
Preceded byAlfred Dobbs
Succeeded byPeter Griffiths
Personal details
Born
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker

(1907-04-07)7 April 1907
Worthing, Sussex, England
Died2 December 1980(1980-12-02) (aged 73)
London, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Audrey Muriel Rudolf
(m. 1934)
Children5
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, CH, PC (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years and twice a cabinet minister. He lost his Smethwick parliamentary seat at the 1964 general election in a bitterly racial campaign conducted in the wake of local factory closures.