Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

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

Wolrige-Gordon was one of twin sons of Captain Robert Wolridge-Gordon, MC and his wife Joan Walter, the daughter of Dame Flora Macleod, 28th Chief of the Clan MacLeod. He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford and served as a Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

Wolrige-Gordon was elected Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire in November 1958 at a by-election when he was still an undergraduate. He was at the time the youngest MP. He married Anne Howard, daughter of Peter Howard, in 1962 and 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.

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

Wolrige-Gordon had a son and two daughters. His twin brother John MacLeod of MacLeod changed his name to take up the role of chieftain of the clan which he inherited from their grandmother.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Boothby	Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire 1958–Feb. 1974	Succeeded by Douglas Henderson
Preceded by Basil de Ferranti	Baby of the House 1958–1959	Succeeded by Paul Channon