Roy Jenkins Roy Jenkins Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British Labour Party, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician, and biographer of British political leaders. The son of a Welsh coal-miner and trade unionist (later a Labour MP and government minister), Roy Jenkins was educated at Oxford University and served as an intelligence officer in the Second World War. Elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 1948, he went on to serve in two major posts in Harold Wilson's first government. As Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967, he sought to build
Arthur Jenkins (politician) and from there to the campus in London. He had not finish his studies at Ruskin when he left for Paris. In 1910 Jenkins returned to the valleys to work as a miner and teach evening classes in the mining village of Garndiffaith. On 2 October 1911, Arthur Jenkins married Hattie Harris (1886-1953), the daughter of a local steelworks manager from Blaenafon. She worked in a Pontypool music shop. Their son Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) was a Labour, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician, serving as Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and President of the European Commission and as Liberal Democrat