Gordon Downey
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Sir Gordon Stanley Downey Template:Post-nominals (26 April 1928 – 12 April 2022)[1] was Britain's first Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.[2][3]
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.[4]
Downey died on 12 April 2022, at the age of 93.[5]