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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 ...
Mar 26, 2014 · A biography of Roy Jenkins, the most successful chancellor and radical home secretary of the 20th century, and the founder of the SDP. The review questions the legacy of his social-liberal world-view in the face of the current political and economic crises.
Jan 6, 2003 · Roy Jenkins, a Welsh miner's son who became a Socialist cabinet minister and president of the European Commission in Brussels and then tried to break the mold of...
Jan 5, 2003 · Obituary: Roy Jenkins. Roy Jenkins was a civilised, liberal, decent politician, for those who liked him. For harsher critics he was a snob who had betrayed his party and his working-class...
Feb 23, 2018 · As home secretary in the Labour government of the mid-1960s, Roy Jenkins oversaw some of the great social reforms of the 20th Century, including abortion rights, divorce, and the...
Learn about Roy Jenkins, a British politician, author and journalist who was a radical home secretary, chancellor of the exchequer and president of the European Commission. He was also a socialite, a biographer of Gladstone and a Whitbread Prize winner.
