Patrick Gordon Walker

The Right Honourable The Lord Gordon-Walker CH PC
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 12 March 1962 – 28 February 1963
Leader	Hugh Gaitskell George Brown
Preceded by	George Brown
Succeeded by	Denis Healey
Shadow Home Secretary
In office 24 Januray 1958 – 12 March 1962
Leader	Hugh Gaitskell
Preceded by	Kenneth Younger
Succeeded by	George Brown
Shadow President of the Board of Trade
In office 15 February 1956 – 24 Januray 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 (1907-04-07)7 April 1907 Worthing, Sussex, England
Died	2 December 1980(1980-12-02) (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.