The Lord Gordon-Walker | |
|---|---|
 Gordon Walker in 1969 | |
| Secretary of State for Education and Science | |
| In office 29 August 1967 – 6 April 1968 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Anthony Crosland |
| Succeeded by | Edward Short |
| Minister without Portfolio | |
| In office 6 April 1966 – 29 August 1967 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Peter Carington |
| Succeeded by | George Thomson |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 16 October 1964 – 22 January 1965 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Rab Butler |
| Succeeded by | Michael Stewart |
| Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
| In office 14 February 1963 – 16 October 1964 | |
| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Rab Butler |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
| In office 13 May 1957 – 12 March 1962 | |
| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Younger |
| Succeeded by | George Brown |
| Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
| In office 28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951 | |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Philip Noel-Baker |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Ismay |
| Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
| In office 7 October 1947 – 28 February 1950 | |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Arthur Bottomley |
| Succeeded by | Angus Holden |
| Member of Parliament for Leyton | |
| In office 31 March 1966 – 8 February 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Ronald Buxton |
| Succeeded by | Bryan Magee |
| Member of Parliament for Smethwick | |
| In office 1 October 1945 – 25 September 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Alfred Dobbs |
| Succeeded by | Peter Griffiths |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker 7 April 1907 Worthing, Sussex, England |
| Died | 2 December 1980 (aged 73) London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Audrey Muriel Rudolf
(m. 1934) |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | Christ 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.