Patrick Gordon Walker
The Lord Gordon-Walker | |
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Gordon Walker in 1963 | |
| 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 28 February 1963 – 16 October 1964 | |
| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Rab Butler |
| Shadow Minister of Defence | |
| In office 30 November 1961 – 28 February 1963 | |
| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell George Brown |
| Preceded by | George Brown |
| Succeeded by | Denis Healey |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
| In office 24 January 1958 – 30 November 1961 | |
| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Younger |
| Succeeded by | George Brown |
| Shadow President of the Board of Trade | |
| In office 15 February 1956 – 24 January 1958 | |
| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Preceded by | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Dick Mitchison |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
| In office July 1955 – 15 February 1956 | |
| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Creech Jones |
| 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.