Roland Dunstan Moyle PC (12 March 1928 – 14 July 2017) was a British Labour politician.

Early life

Moyle was born in March 1928. His father was Arthur Moyle who was a Labour Member of Parliament and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to

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. Moyle was educated in

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and

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, and at the

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and

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, where he chaired the Labour Club in 1953. He became a barrister, called to the bar by

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in 1954. He was an

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consultant and worked as secretary of the National Joint Industrial Council to the Gas Industry, and National Joint Council in Gas Staffs from 1956 and the sister body in the electrical industry from 1965. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Greenwich from 1964 and was president of Greenwich Labour Party.

Member of Parliament

Moyle was elected Member of Parliament for Lewisham North in 1966, and after boundary changes, for

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in 1974. After a spell as Parliamentary Secretary to the

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, he was

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for Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1976, and Minister of Health from 1976 to 1979. Privy counsellor 1978. In Labour's landslide general election defeat of 1983, Moyle lost his seat to the

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Later life and death

Moyle later became deputy chairman of the police complaints authority 1985 to 1991. He died on 14 July 2017 at the age of 89.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1966 and 1983 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moyle, Roland 1928 births 2017 deaths Alumni of Aberystwyth University Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Councillors in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Labour Party (UK) councillors Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Northern Ireland Office junior ministers Sons of life peers UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983