Roy Jenkins 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed. Jenkins was disappointed with Owen's move to the right, and his acceptance and backing of some of Thatcher's policies. At heart, Jenkins remained a Keynesian. He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway, after boundary changes in 1983 had changed the character of the constituency. From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the
Adah Jenkins Adah Jenkins Adah Louise Killion Jenkins (April 23, 1901 – May 8, 1973) was a Civil rights activist, musician, and a music critic for the Afro-American newspaper. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Jenkins attended the Teachers Training College, now Coppin State University. Initially teaching in Baltimore City Public Schools, where she became the first Black supervisor of music, Jenkins became a professor of music at Morgan State University. During the Civil Rights Movement, Jenkins was involved with many activists groups; she helped to organize the Baltimore Interracial Fellowship and she was a charter member of the Baltimore chapter of