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Patrick Gordon Walker

AKA Patrick Chrestien Gordon-Walker

Born: 7-Apr-1907
Birthplace: Worthing, West Sussex, England
Died: 2-Dec-1980
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician

Nationality: England
Executive summary: UK Foreign Secretary, 1964-66

Father: Alan Lachlan Gordon Walker (judge)
Wife: Audrey Muriel Rudolf (m. 1934, twin sons, three daughters)
Son: Robin Walker (twin)
Son: Alan Walker (twin)
Daughter: Judith
Daughter: Caroline
Daughter: Ann

    High School: Wellington College
    University: Christ Church, Oxford University

    Member of the European Parliament (1975-76)
    UK Minister Secretary of State for Education and Science (1967-68)
    UK Minister Without Portfolio (1967)
    UK Member of Parliament for Leyton (1966-74)
    UK Foreign Secretary (1964-66)
    UK Minister Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (1950-51)
    UK Official Parliamentary Under-Secy. of State, Commonwealth Relations (1947-50)
    UK Member of Parliament for Smethwick (1945-64)
    British Film Institute Chairman (1946-48)
    Labour Party (UK)
    Life Peerage 4-Jul-1974 as Baron Gordon-Walker of Leyton

Author of books:
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1935, history)
Outline of Man's History (1939, history)
Restatement of Liberty (1951)
The Commonwealth (1962)
The Cabinet (1970)


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