Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

| image = File:The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post Sat Nov 22 1958.jpg

| caption = Wolridge-Gordon in 1958

| constituency_MP = East Aberdeenshire

| parliament =

| majority =

| predecessor = Robert Boothby

| successor = Douglas Henderson

| term_start = 20 November 1958

| term_end = 8 February 1974

| birth_date = 10 August 1935

| birth_place = Ellon, Aberdeenshire

| death_date = 22 May 2002 (aged 66)

| death_place = Newburgh, Aberdeenshire

| occupation = Politician

| spouse = Anne Marie Howard

| children = 3

| parents = Captain Robert Wolrige-Gordon, Joan Walter

}}

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon (10 August 1935 – 22 May 2002), was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician.

Biography

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon was one of twin sons of Captain Robert Wolrige-Gordon, MC and his wife Joan Walter, the daughter of Dame Flora MacLeod, the 28th Chief of the Clan MacLeod. He was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford and served as a lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. His great-uncle was Brigadier General Robert Gordon Gilmour.

Career

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon was elected Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for East Aberdeenshire in November 1958 at a by-election when he was still an undergraduate. At 23, he was at the time the youngest MP.{{Cite news |date=22 November 1958 |title=Undergraduate as Youngest M.P. |language=en |pages=1 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=Bristol |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/832199428 |url-access=subscription |access-date=29 May 2023}}

He married Anne Marie Howard, daughter of journalist Peter Howard and tennis player Doris Metaxa in 1962. He became involved through Howard in Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement, which attracted much negative comment. He fell out with his local association over the matter and was defeated in the February 1974 general election by the Scottish National Party candidate Douglas Henderson.

Global policy

He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.{{Cite web |title=Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961 |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B149-F04-022.1.8 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}}{{Cite web |title=Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK01-07-B154-F05-028.1.6 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Helen Keller Archive |publisher=American Foundation for the Blind}} As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.{{Cite web |title=Preparing earth constitution {{!}} Global Strategies & Solutions {{!}} The Encyclopedia of World Problems |url=http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 |url-status= |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=The Encyclopedia of World Problems {{!}} Union of International Associations (UIA)}}

Honours

He was appointed a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in 1966.

Family

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon had a son and two daughters. His elder twin brother, John Wolrige-Gordon (1935–2007), changed his name to John MacLeod of MacLeod to take up the role of 29th Clan Chieftain, which he inherited from their grandmother.

References

External links

{{Hansard-contribs | mr-patrick-wolrige-gordon | Patrick Wolrige-Gordon }}
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1542687/John-MacLeod-of-MacLeod.html Obituary for John MacLeod, brother of Patrick Wolrige-Gordon]

{{succession box

| title = Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire

| years = 1958 – February 1974

| before = Robert Boothby

| after = Douglas Henderson}}

{{succession box

| title = Baby of the House

| years = 1958–1959

| before = Basil de Ferranti

| after = Paul Channon}}

Category:1935 births

Category:2002 deaths