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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 president of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981.
Roy Jenkins (born November 11, 1920, Abersychan, Monmouthshire, England—died January 5, 2003, East Hendred, Oxfordshire) was a British politician, a strong supporter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Community. Formerly a Labourite, he was the first leader of the Social Democratic Party (1982–83) and later was ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biografía. Nació en Abersychan, población situada en el condado galés de Monmouthshire. Estudió Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Cardiff y en la de Oxford, donde se relacionó con los futuros ministros Tony Crosland, Denis Healey y el futuro primer ministro Edward Heath .
23 de mar. de 2014 · Roy Jenkins: A Well Rounded Life review – 'a magnificent biography' | Biography books | The Guardian. Roy Jenkins photographed in 1967, the year of his major reforms as home...
Roy Jenkins was a natural choice to be the first British President of the European Commission, where his term was primarily remembered for reviving the idea of European monetary union. In later years, his books were popular and critical successes, and his biography of Gladstone brought him a coveted Whitbread Prize.
- Emily Mace
Hace 1 día · Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life. London, Jonathan Cape, 2014, ISBN: 9780224087506; 832pp.; Price: £30.00. In one of Disraeli’s novels, we are told to ‘read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory’.
20 de mar. de 2014 · Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life, by John Campbell, Jonathan Cape, RRP£30, 832 pages. ... This anecdote does not make it into John Campbell’s huge biography.
