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5 de ene. de 2003 · Roy Jenkins was a private man, his manner, which his friends said was a product of his overwhelming shyness, was frequently off-putting. But he changed the shape of British society, and changed the shape of British politics, too. Roy Jenkins, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, who died on Sunday, was one of the major political figures of the 20th century.
Roy Jenkins, baron Jenkins de Hillhead, né le 20 novembre 1920 et mort le 5 janvier 2003, est un homme politique britannique. Biographie. Membre éminent du Parti travailliste, du Conseil priv é de Grande-Bretagne ...
Roy Jenkins was born on 11 November 1920 at Greenlands, Snatchwood Road, Abersychan, near Pontypool, the only son of Arthur Jenkins (1882-1946), a trade unionist and politician who served a prison sentence for his role in the 1926 General Strike, and his wife Harriet (née Harris, 1886-1953).
26 de mar. de 2014 · The broken legacy of Roy Jenkins. He was the most successful chancellor since the 1940s and the most radical home secretary since WW1, responsible for the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the SDP. Yet a decade after his death, his social-liberal world-view is in crisis.
6 de ene. de 2003 · Jenkins is survived by his wife, Dame Jennifer, whom he married in 1945, their sons Charles and Edward, and daughter Cynthia. · Roy Harris Jenkins, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, politician and writer ...
23 de feb. de 2018 · Roy Harris Jenkins was born in 1920 and was the product of the mining valleys of south Wales. A grammar school boy, who went on to win a first at Oxford. He was immersed in politics from an early ...
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead. Jenkins represented Birmingham, Stechford for Labour (1950-76). As a backbencher he sponsored the Obscene Publications Act (1959). An enlightened Home Secretary, Jenkins oversaw reforms on abortion, race relations, theatre censorship, and homosexuality. As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967, his ...
