Patrick Wolrige-Gordon [SEP] occupation
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon (10 August 1935 – 22 May 2002), also spelt Wolridge-Gordon, was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician.
Biography.
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.
in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, on 10 August 1935. He was the elder of the twin sons of Captain Robert Wolrige-Gordon, MC and his wife Joan Walter. His younger twin brother, Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, would later become a Tory Member of Parliament. The twins had an older brother, Robert Wolrige-Gordon, who would later succeed his father as the 21st laird of Hallhead, 10th feudal baron of Esslemont.
Joan Walter was the daughter of Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, the 28th chief of Clan