Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding

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Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding , PC (born September 7, 1926 in Edinburgh - † December 21, 2016 in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

biography

After attending the Dragon School in Oxford and Clifton College , he studied at Jesus College at the University of Cambridge .

He began his political career in local politics as a member of the Hornsey City Council (Hornsey Borough Council) . In 1964 he was first as a candidate of the Conservative Party in the lower house (House of Commons) selected and represented there first until 1974 the constituency Woodford and then from 1974 to 1987 the constituency of Wanstead and Woodford .

After the Conservatives won the 1970 general election , Prime Minister Edward Heath appointed him Treasury Secretary of the Treasury. After a cabinet reshuffle, he was Chief Secretary of the Treasury between 1972 and the 1974 election defeat of the Conservatives .

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed him after the Conservative Party's renewed victory in the general election in May 1979 as Minister of Social Services in her cabinet. After a government reshuffle, he succeeded Keith Joseph as Minister of Industry in 1981 and was finally Minister of Environment in the Thatcher government between 1983 and 1985 as Tom King's successor , while Cecil Parkinson was Minister of Industry and Commerce.

After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to the nobility on November 3, 1987 as a Life Peer and was a member of the House of Lords as Baron Jenkin of Roding , of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London . On January 6, 2015, he voluntarily resigned from the House of Lords.

His son Bernard Jenkin is also a Conservative Party politician and has been a member of the House of Commons since 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Jenkin dead: Former Conservative MP and Thatcher cabinet member dies, aged 90 . Independent.co.uk , December 21, 2016, accessed December 21, 2016.
  2. ^ Thatcher's Class of '79: Patrick Jenkin . BBC News , accessed December 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Jenkin, Patrick, Baron Jenkin of Roding
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jenkin, Charles Patrick Fleeming, Baron Jenkin of Roding (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2016
Place of death Bury St Edmunds