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Roy Jenkins


Born
in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales
November 11, 1920

Died
January 05, 2003

Genre
Biography, Politics

Influences
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Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC was a Welsh politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he became the first (and so far only) British President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.

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“réclame”
― Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography
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“political position. Back in”
― Roy Jenkins, Asquith
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