Charles Gordon

Sir Charles Addison Somerville Snowden Gordon, KCB (25 July 1918 – 1 March 2009) was an English parliamentary clerk. Early life, education and war service Born on 25 July 1918, Gordon was the son of Charles Gordon Snowden Gordon, a barrister from Liverpool. After attending Winchester College, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, as a Domus scholar in 1936. He graduated in 1939 with a second-class honours degree in modern history. He then spent the Second World War with the Fleet Air Arm, before joining the House of Commons Department as an Assistant Clerk in 1946. According to The Independent, "His analytical skills and his articulacy ... made him a 'natural' Clerk and he became a first-class proceduralist". Career and later life