Gordon Downey
Sir Gordon Stanley Downey KCB (26 April 1928 – 12 April 2022) was a British ombudsman who was the country's first Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.[1][2]
Life and career
[edit]Gordon Stanley Downey was born in Battersea, London on 26 April 1928.[3][4]
The Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards was set up by the House of Commons 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.[5]
Downey died from cancer at a nursing home in Battersea, on 12 April 2022, at the age of 93.[6][4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Talking Politics – Neil Hamilton - A chronology". BBC News. 19 October 1998. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ↑ "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards: Nomination of Candidate". House of Commons. 2002. Archived from the original on 14 October 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 26 April 2012. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
Sir Gordon Downey, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, 1995–98, 84
- 1 2 "Downey, Sir Gordon Stanley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
- ↑ Downey, Gordon (13 May 1994). "Flawed PIA nears moment of truth: Former chairman Sir Gordon Downey argues that a new agency would be preferable to the two-tier approach". The Independent. www.independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ↑ "Sir Gordon Downey obituary". The Times. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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