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Patrick Wolrige-Gordon was one of twin sons of Captain Robert Wolrige-Gordon<!-- he spelt it with the alternative spelling-->, [[Military Cross|MC]] and his wife Joan Walter, the daughter of [[Flora MacLeod of MacLeod|Dame Flora MacLeod]], the 28th [[Scottish clan chief|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]].

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon was elected Conservative and Unionist [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[East Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)|East Aberdeenshire]] in November 1958 at a [[by-election]] when he was still an [[undergraduate]]. At 23, he was at the time the [[Baby of the House|youngest MP]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 NovNovember 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}}</ref>

He married Anne Marie Howard, daughter of journalist [[Peter Howard (journalist)|Peter Howard]], and tennis player [[Doris Metaxa]] in 1962. andHe 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 United Kingdom general election|February 1974 general election]] by the Scottish National Party candidate [[Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)|Douglas Henderson]].

He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a [[world constitution]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> As a result, for the first time in human history, a [[World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention|World Constituent Assembly]] convened to draft and adopt the [[Constitution for the Federation of Earth]].<ref>{{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)}}</ref>

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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