Bryan Gould

Bryan Gould CNZM
Shadow Secretary of State for National Heritage
In office 18 July 1992 – 29 September 1992
Leader	John Smith
Preceded by	Office Created
Succeeded by	Ann Clwyd
Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment
In office 2 November 1989 – 18 July 1992
Leader	Neil Kinnock
Preceded by	Jack Cunningham
Succeeded by	Chris Smith
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
In office 13 July 1987 – 2 November 1989
Leader	Neil Kinnock
Preceded by	John Smith
Succeeded by	Gordon Brown
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 30 October 1986 – 13 July 1987
Leader	Neil Kinnock
Succeeded by	Gordon Brown
Member of Parliament for Dagenham
In office 9 June 1983 – 17 May 1994
Preceded by	John Parker
Succeeded by	Judith Church
Member of Parliament for Southampton Test
In office 10 October 1974 – 3 May 1979
Preceded by	James Hill
Succeeded by	James Hill
Personal details
Born	Bryan Charles Gould 11 February 1939 Hawera, New Zealand
Nationality	Britain : New Zealand
Political party	Labour
Relations	George Gould (grandfather) Wayne Gould (brother)
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Bryan Charles Gould, CNZM (born 11 February 1939 in Hawera, New Zealand^[1]) is a former British politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1994, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.^[2]

Gould currently holds a number of positions and in 2004 was made a director at TVNZ.^[3]

Gould was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1962. After completing a degree in Law with first-class honours, he joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1964. He then returned to Oxford as a tutorial Fellow in Law at Worcester College alongside Francis Reynolds.

Gould became Labour MP for Southampton Test in October 1974 and held the seat until 1979. He worked as a television journalist from 1979 to 1983, and was then elected as MP for Dagenham from 1983, holding the seat until he resigned on 17 May 1994.

Gould was a member of Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet, serving first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, then as spokesman on Trade and Industry, the Environment,^[4] and later on Heritage. In 1992 he founded the Full Employment Forum. Later that year he was defeated in the leadership election to succeed Kinnock after the general election, which Labour lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession. John Smith won the leadership contest,^[5] but Gould resigned from Smith's Shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 when the Shadow Cabinet rejected a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and in protest against Labour's support for the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.^[6]

In July 1994 he returned to New Zealand and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato, serving until his retirement in 2004. In this position Gould was instrumental in initiating The Great Race, a rowing race for Waikato University against international universities on the Waikato River. The Bryan Gould Cup for the women's eights race is named after him.^[7]

Gould was awarded Companionship of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2003 for services to Education. In October 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato. He is a board member of TVNZ.

Bryan Gould's brother is Wayne Gould, best known for popularising Sudoku. They are descendants of George Gould, a former chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company.^[8]

References

1. Whitney, Craig R. (19 April 1992). "THE WORLD; The Labor Party Tries To Imagine a Future". The New York Times. p. 5. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
2. McSmith, Andy (1997). Faces of Labour: the inside story. Verso. pp. 15–. ISBN 978-1-85984-093-1. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
4. Whitney, Craig R. (15 April 1992). "Laborites to Wait Until July to Pick Leader". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
5. "1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns". BBC News. 13 April 1992.
6. Philip Webster, ‘Gould quits over Labour EC policy’, The Times (28 September 1992), p. 1.
7. "Great Race - The Trophies". The Great Race website. Retrieved 2011.
8. Greenaway, Richard L. N. (June 2007). "Barbadoes Street Cemetery Tour" (PDF). Christchurch City Council. p. 4. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Bryan Gould
• Bryan Gould's website
• Bryan Gould at the Internet Movie Database
• Gould on 100th anniversary of Labour Party, BBC