Patrick Gordon Walker
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The Right Honourable The Lord Gordon-Walker CH PC |
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| Secretary of State for Education and Science | |
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In office 29 August 1967 – 6 April 1968 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Tony Crosland |
| Succeeded by | Edward Short |
| Minister without Portfolio | |
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In office 6 April 1966 – 29 August 1967 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Peter Carington |
| Succeeded by | George Thomson |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 16 October 1964 – 22 January 1965 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Rab Butler |
| Succeeded by | Michael Stewart |
| Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
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In office 14 February 1963 – 16 October 1964 |
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| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Rab Butler |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
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In office 13 May 1957 – 12 March 1962 |
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| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Younger |
| Succeeded by | George Brown |
| Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
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In office 28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951 |
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| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Philip Noel-Baker |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Ismay |
| Under Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
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In office 7 October 1947 – 28 February 1950 |
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| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Arthur Bottomley |
| Succeeded by | Angus Holden |
| Member of Parliament for Leyton |
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In office 31 March 1966 – 28 February 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Ronald Buxton |
| Succeeded by | Bryan Magee |
| Member of Parliament for Smethwick |
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In office 1 October 1945 – 15 October 1964 |
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| Preceded by | Alfred Dobbs |
| Succeeded by | Peter Griffiths |
| Personal details | |
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7 April 1907 Worthing, England |
| Died | 2 December 1980 (aged 73) London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| 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 (MP) for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister. He is best-remembered for the circumstances surrounding the loss of his Smethwick parliamentary seat at the 1964 general election, in a bitterly racial campaign carried on in the wake of local factory closures.
Born in Worthing, Sussex, Gordon Walker was the son of Alan Lachlan Gordon Walker, a Scottish judge in the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at Wellington College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a Second in Modern History in 1928 and subsequently gained a B. Litt. He served as a Student [Fellow] in history at Christ Church from 1931 until 1941.
From 1940 to 1944, Gordon Walker worked for the BBC's European Service, where from 1942 he arranged the BBC's daily broadcasts to Germany. In 1945, he worked as Assistant Director of BBC's German Service working from Radio Luxembourg, travelling with the British forces. He broadcast about the liberation of the German concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, and wrote a book on the subject called The Lid Lifts.
From 1946 to 1948, he was Chairman of the British Film Institute.
He first stood for Parliament at the 1935 general election, when he was unsuccessful in the Conservative-held Oxford constituency.
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