Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician and writer who served as the sixth...
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Willie Roy Jenkins (born July 30, 1953) is an American murderer, rapist and suspected serial killer who was linked via DNA to a 1975 rape-murder committed...
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1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission. Jenkins argued the necessity for a realignment...
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Commission on the Voting System, popularly known as the Jenkins Commission after its chairman Roy Jenkins, was a commission into possible reform of the United...
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fall and suffered a net loss of one seat as well as former SDP leader Roy Jenkins losing his seat to Labour. This led to the two Alliance parties merging...
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and then to The Guardian).[citation needed] Despite the support of Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967,...
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final examinations, and a series of major academic awards. Biographer Roy Jenkins wrote: Academically his results put him among prime ministers in the...
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increasing political opposition forced Wilson to accept it. Wilson then moved Roy Jenkins, the home secretary, to be chancellor; Callaghan became the new home...
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divisions within the party. During 1981, a group of senior figures including Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams left Labour to found the...
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the party's Junior Defence Spokesman until 1972 when he resigned with Roy Jenkins over Labour's opposition to the European Community. On Labour's return...
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Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, on 5 January 2003. The electorate consisted of all...
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Grimsby, which he would represent for the rest of his life. He was, like Roy Jenkins and Denis Healey, a friend and protégé of Hugh Gaitskell, and together...
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resigned her membership to form – along with fellow Labour resignees Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers – the Social Democratic Party (SDP). They...
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was supported in public by two younger MPs later to be staunch allies, Roy Jenkins and Anthony Crosland. After the budget Tony Benn, who was on the right...
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Secretary. Healey was appointed Shadow Chancellor in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned in a row over the European Economic Community (Common Market)...
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Liberal Democrat) politician Roy Jenkins. Jenkins was born at Varteg, near Abersychan in Monmouthshire to Thomas Jenkins and his wife, Eliza Perry. He...
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Secretary 1968–70, and became Labour's deputy leader on 25 April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned over differences on European policy. Short was seen at the time...
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secured the Community's own financial resources, and in 1977, President Roy Jenkins became the first Commission president to attend a G7 summit on behalf...
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to Labour's Roy Jenkins in Opposition; a so-called "Chocolate Soldier", funded by the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust. When Jenkins became Home Secretary...
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chance, Chris Patten and his two predecessors, Harold Macmillan and Roy Jenkins, were also Balliol men. Other potential candidates have been reported...
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successor as Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, considering him vain and arrogant). As Shadow Chancellor he concentrated on tax reform. Jenkins, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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1981, four senior politicians on the right-wing of the Labour Party (Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers, the so-called "Gang...
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162 Jenkins 2001, p. 670. Jenkins 2001, pp. 677–678. Jenkins 2001, p. 674. Jenkins 2001, p. 679. Jenkins 2001, p. 682. Jenkins 2001, p. 680. Jenkins 2001...
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Cabinet voted to support a referendum on 29 March 1972, and as a result Roy Jenkins resigned as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. In the Labour Government...
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the way, we also elected a chancellor – The triumph of Roy Jenkins". The Times. 15 March 1987. "Jenkins wins the Oxford vote". The Times. 15 March 1987....
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Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs) and former Cabinet members Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the...
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external representation of the Community took a step forward when President Roy Jenkins, recruited to the presidency in January 1977 from his role as Home Secretary...
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break off the kiss. Cast Hugh Jackman as Davis Kate Winslet as Beth Roy Jenkins as Ray Rocky Russo as Waiter Jake Anna Madigan as Abby Julie Claire as...
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player Roy Lee Jackson (born 1954), American former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Douglas Jayetileke, Sri Lankan Sinhala army officer Roy Jenkins (1920–2003)...
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With Labour drifting to the left, Rodgers joined Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen in forming the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981....
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