Patrick Gordon Walker

Patrick Gordon Walker Chretien, Baron Gordon - Walker ( born April 7, 1907 in Worthing, † December 2, 1980 in London) was a British Labour Party politician.

Walker was educated at Wellington College ( Berkshire ) and Christ Church (Oxford) history.

Between 1940 and 1944 he worked for the BBC and foreign radio there from 1942 for German consignments. In 1945 he was deputy director of the German Service of the BBC. He came as a front Rapporteur with the British army to Germany and reported on the liberation of the concentration camp Bergen- Belsen. About this liberation, he wrote the book "The Lid Lifts ".

Between 1946 and 1948 he was chairman of the " British Film Institute ".

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After a failed bid in 1935 Walker was elected in a by-election in 1945 in the Smethwick constituency and represented that constituency until 1964 and later, from 1966 to 1974, the constituency of Leyton in the House. The government, he was a member of, among others, as Foreign Minister from 1964 to 1965 and then as Minister of Education. From 1974 he sat as a life peer in the House of Lords.

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