Gordon Downey
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Sir Gordon Stanley Downey Template:Post-nominals (26 April 1928 – 12 April 2022)<ref name=Birth>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was Britain's first Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards was set up by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1995 as a result of recommendations made by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. He resigned shortly after Trial by Conspiracy by J Boyd Hunt was published in 1998, casting doubt on his report about Neil Hamilton and the cash-for-questions affair.
Downey was previously chairman of the investors' "watchdog", the Personal Investment Authority.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Downey died on 12 April 2022, at the age of 93.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>