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Patrick Gordon Walker
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 (MP) for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister. He is best-remembered for the circumstances surrounding the loss of his Smethwick parliamentary seat at the 1964 general election, in a bitterly racial campaign carried on in the wake of local factory closures.
==Early life==
Born in Worthing, Sussex, Gordon Walker was the son of Alan Lachlan Gordon Walker, a Scottish judge in the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at Wellington College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a Second in Modern History in 1928 and subsequently gained a B. Litt.〔''Oxford University Calendar 1932'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932, pg.268, 817.〕 He served as a Student () in history at Christ Church from 1931〔''Oxford University Calendar 1932'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932, pg.541.〕 until 1941.〔''The Times'', 3 December 1980, p.19 col.6〕
From 1940 to 1944, he worked for the BBC's European Service, where from 1942 he arranged the BBC's daily broadcasts to Germany. In 1945 he worked as Assistant Director of BBC's German Service working from Radio Luxembourg, travelling with the British forces. He broadcast about the liberation of the German concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, and wrote a book on the subject called "The Lid Lifts".〔Pearce (2004)〕
From 1946 to 1948, he was Chairman of the British Film Institute.〔''BFI Annual Reports'', London: BFI〕
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