Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy KCSG (born 17 June 1920) is a British economist and Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Colne Valley from 1963 to 1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1970 to 1992. Duffy was also a Minister of the Navy in the 1970s, and president of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s. Following the death of Ronald Atkins on 30 December 2020, Duffy became Britain's oldest surviving former MP. Early life and career Duffy was born in Wigan, Lancashire in June 1920, to Irish Catholic immigrant parents James and Margaret Duffy, who were both from the village of Raith, near Aghamore in County Mayo. James and his father, who was also named Patrick, moved to England as migrant agricultural workers in the late 19th and early 20th century. James worked as a miner in Wigan's Maypole pit, before moving with his family to the mining village of Rossington near Doncaster in South Yorkshire in 1925. , the younger Patrick still lives in Doncaster. Duffy served in the Fleet Air Arm in World War II. After his plane had crashed near Scapa Flow in Orkney, and still in his early 20s, a priest gave him the last rites; however, Duffy left the forces in 1946 with the rank of Commanding Officer at the Naval School of Air Radar. His interest in politics was stirred whilst he was a student at the London School of Economics; it was there and at Columbia University in New York where he obtained his degree and Doctorate of Law. Following this, he took up a professorship at Leeds University. He lectured there from 1950 to 1963, and from 1967 to 1970, with a break for his initial stint in Parliament. During this period, he was also a visiting professor at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Later in his career, he was a visiting professor at the American Graduate School of International Business, from 1982 to 1993, and at Wheaton's International Business Institute in Illinois, from 1992. Political career Duffy first contested the Parliamentary seat of Tiverton in 1950, when he was completing his studies at the LSE, before he took students - including his future Labour colleague Shirley Catlin, who went on to become Baroness Williams - to Columbia University in New York. Despite Tiverton being a safe seat for the Conservative Party, Duffy contested it twice more,