Sir Charles Addison Somerville Snowden Gordon, KCB (25 July 1918 – 1 March 2009) was an English parliamentary clerk.
[2] 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.
[4] The following year, he was appointed head of the Overseas Office (serving until 1969) and advised new Commonwealth parliaments on procedure.
[2][3] He had to advise on bills establishing the assemblies of Scotland and Wales, debates over which went on late into the night for consecutive days.
His wife, Janet Beattie, died in 1995, and his last years were spent with his partner, Pamela Fernant.