Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding

The Right Honourable The Lord Jenkin of Roding PC
Secretary of State for the Environment
In office 12 June 1983 – 2 September 1985
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Tom King
Succeeded by	Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Industry
In office 14 September 1981 – 12 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Keith Joseph
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson (Trade and Industry)
Secretary of State for Social Services
In office 4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	David Ennals
Succeeded by	Norman Fowler
Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Services
In office 19 November 1976 – 4 May 1979
Leader	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Norman Fowler
Succeeded by	Stanley Orme
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy
In office 18 February 1975 – 19 November 1976
Leader	Margaret Thatcher
Succeeded by	John Biffen
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 7 April 1972 – 8 January 1974
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Maurice Macmillan
Succeeded by	Tom Boardman
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 19 June 1970 – 7 April 1972
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Dick Taverne
Succeeded by	Terence Higgns
Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford
In office 15 October 1964 – 11 June 1987
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	James Arbuthnot
Personal details
Born	7 September 1926 Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Monica (m.1950)
Children	Bernard
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge Middle Temple, Inns of Court
Religion	Anglican

Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, PC (born 7 September 1926)^[1] is a British Conservative politician and the great-grandson of the scientist Fleeming Jenkin.

Jenkin was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Clifton College in Bristol and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called by the Middle Temple in 1952, and company director. He was a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council 1960–63.

Jenkin was the Conservative MP for Woodford from 1964 to 1974 (succeeding Sir Winston Churchill on his retirement) and, after constituency boundary changes, for Wanstead and Woodford from 1974 to 1987, and served as an Opposition spokesman on economic and trade affairs from 1965. He has been a member of the Bow Group since 1951.^[2] In January 1974 he became Minister for Energy just weeks before the Conservatives fell from office, and participated in many ways in the government of Margaret Thatcher. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1979 to 1981, then as Secretary of State for Industry until 1983, and finally as Secretary of State for the Environment from 1983 to 1985. He was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkin of Roding, of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London in 1987.^[1][3][4] On 6 January 2015 he retired from the House of Lords pursuant to section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. ^[5]

Affiliations

Lord Jenkin of Roding is president of the Foundation for Science and Technology, and is a vice-president of the Local Government Association.^[2]

Family

His son, Bernard, is a Member of Parliament. His grandfather, Frewen, was the first Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 1908 in the newly created Department of Engineering Science, and the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford.

References

1. "Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
2. "UK Parliament Biography". Parliament.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51014. pp. 1–2. 30 July 1987.
4. The London Gazette: no. 51113. p. 1. 6 November 1987.
5. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150106-0001.htm Lords Hansard for 6 January 2015

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Patrick Jenkin