Editing Patrick Gordon Walker (section)

{{Short description|British Labour politician (1907–1980)}}
{{British barrelled name|Gordon Walker|Walker}}
{{EngvarB|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Gordon-Walker
| honorific-suffix    = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CH|PC}}
| image               = Member of Parliament of Great Britain, Patrick Gordon Walker.jpg
| caption             = Gordon Walker in 1963
| office              = [[Secretary of State for Education and Science]]
| term_start          = 29 August 1967
| term_end            = 6 April 1968
| primeminister       = [[Harold Wilson]]
| predecessor         = [[Anthony Crosland]]
| successor           = [[Edward Short, Baron Glenamara|Edward Short]]
| office1             = [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Minister without Portfolio]]
| term_start1         = 6 April 1966
| term_end1           = 29 August 1967
| primeminister1      = [[Harold Wilson]]
| predecessor1        = [[Peter Carington]]
| successor1          = [[George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth|George Thomson]]
| office2             = [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]]
| term_start2         = 16 October 1964
| term_end2           = 22 January 1965
| primeminister2      = [[Harold Wilson]]
| predecessor2        = [[Rab Butler]]
| successor2          = [[Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham|Michael Stewart]]
| office3             = [[Shadow Foreign Secretary]]
| term_start3         = 28 February 1963
| term_end3           = 16 October 1964
| leader3             = [[Harold Wilson]]
| predecessor3        = [[Harold Wilson]]
| successor3          = [[Rab Butler]]
| office4             = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Defence|Shadow Minister of Defence]]
| term_start4         = 30 November 1961
| term_end4           = 28 February 1963
| leader4             = [[Hugh Gaitskell]]<br>[[George Brown, Baron George-Brown|George Brown]]
| predecessor4        = [[George Brown, Baron George-Brown|George Brown]]
| successor4          = [[Denis Healey]]
| office5             = [[Shadow Home Secretary]]
| term_start5         = 24 January 1958
| term_end5           = 30 November 1961
| leader5             = [[Hugh Gaitskell]]
| predecessor5        = [[Kenneth Younger]]
| successor5          = [[George Brown, Baron George-Brown|George Brown]]
| office6             = [[Shadow President of the Board of Trade]]
| term_start6         = 15 February 1956
| term_end6           = 24 January 1958
| leader6             = [[Hugh Gaitskell]]
| predecessor6        = [[Harold Wilson]]
| successor6          = [[Dick Mitchison, Baron Mitchison|Dick Mitchison]]
| office7             = [[Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations|Shadow Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]]
| term_start7         = July 1955
| term_end7           = 15 February 1956
| leader7             = [[Hugh Gaitskell]]
| predecessor7        = 
| successor7          = [[Arthur Creech Jones]]

| office8             = [[Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]]
| term_start8         = 28 February 1950
| term_end8           = 26 October 1951
| primeminister8      = [[Clement Attlee]]
| predecessor8        = [[Philip Noel-Baker]]
| successor8          = [[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay|The Lord Ismay]]
| office9             = [[Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]]
| term_start9         = 7 October 1947
| term_end9           = 28 February 1950
| primeminister9      = [[Clement Attlee]]
| predecessor9        = [[Arthur Bottomley]]
| successor9          = [[Angus Holden, 3rd Baron Holden|Angus Holden]]

| office10            = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Leyton (UK Parliament constituency)|Leyton]]
| term_start10        = 31 March 1966
| term_end10          = 8 February 1974
| predecessor10      = [[Ronald Buxton (British politician)|Ronald Buxton]]
| successor10         = [[Bryan Magee]]
| office11            = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)|Smethwick]]
| term_start11        = 1 October 1945
| term_end11          = 25 September 1964
| predecessor11       = [[Alfred Dobbs]]
| successor11         = [[Peter Griffiths]]
| birth_name          = Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=yes|1907|4|7}}
| birth_place         = [[Worthing, Sussex]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|1980|12|2|1907|4|7}}
| death_place         = [[London]], England
| party               = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Audrey Muriel Rudolf|1934}}
| children            = 5
| alma_mater          = [[Christ Church, Oxford]]
}}
'''Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|PC}} (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years and twice a cabinet minister. He lost his [[Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)|Smethwick]] parliamentary seat at the [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964 general election]] in a bitterly racial campaign conducted in the wake of local factory closures.