Patrick Wolrige-Gordon
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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.[1]
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.[2][3] 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.[4]
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.
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