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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.
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.
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).
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 ...
24 de sept. de 2004 · Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective, edited by Andrew Adonis and Keith Thomas Oxford University Press £18.99, 353 pages Roy Jenkins might have been prime minister. Instead he hesitated at the moment of ...
19 de mar. de 2014 · Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life – review. A t the farewell dinner given to Roy Jenkins by his closest friends prior to his departure for Brussels to become the UK's first (and, so far only ...
Roy Harris Jenkins was born on 11 November 1920, in Abersychan, South Wales. His father, Arthur Jenkins, was an official in the South Wales Miners’ Federation who became MP for Pontypool and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee. His mother, Hattie, came from a more well-to-do background. From his parents, Jenkins gained a sense ...
