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
Brian Garton Jenkins Brian Garton Jenkins Sir Brian Garton Jenkins (born 3 December 1935) is a retired English chartered accountant and business man who was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1985/86, Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1991/92, and Chairman of Woolwich plc 1995/2000. Jenkins was born in Beckenham, Kent and educated at Tonbridge School (where he was a Scholar and leaving exhibitioner) and Trinity College, Oxford (where he was a State Scholar). Between school and university he was in the Army for National Service being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar. Jenkins