Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, (7 September 1926 – 20 December 2016) was a British

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politician who served as a

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's first government.

Life and career

Jenkin was born in September 1926 and educated at the

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and

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. He became a barrister, called by the

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in 1952, and company director. He was a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council from 1960 to 1963. The following year, Jenkin became the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford. From 1965, he served as an Opposition spokesman on economic and trade affairs. He was a member of the Bow Group from 1951. In January 1974, he became Minister for Energy just weeks before the Conservatives fell from office, and participated in many ways in the government of

. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1979 to 1981, then as

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until 1983, and finally as

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from 1983 to 1985. Jenkin retired from the Commons at the 1987 general election. He was elevated to the

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as a

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with the title Baron Jenkin of Roding, of Wanstead and Woodford in

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. Whilst in the Lords, Jenkin was interviewed in 2012 as part of

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's oral history project. He was noted for his contribution to the debate during the passage of the

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. On 6 January 2015 he retired from the House of Lords pursuant to section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. He died on 20 December 2016, aged 90. Jenkin was president of the Foundation for Science and Technology, and a vice-president of the

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Family and personal life

Lord Jenkin's grandfather, Frewen, was the first Professor of

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at the

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from 1908 in the newly created Department of Engineering Science, and the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford. Lord Jenkin's great-grandfather was the engineer Fleeming Jenkin. In 1958, he married (Alison) Monica Graham (1928–2022). They had two sons and two daughters. Their younger son,

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, is the Conservative Member of Parliament for

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Arms

References

External links

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The Papers of Lord Jenkin of Roding
held at

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