Patrick Jenkin

^[nb]Secretary of State for Health and Social ServicesIn office
4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981Prime MinisterMargaret ThatcherPreceded byDavid EnnalsSucceeded byNorman FowlerChief Secretary to the TreasuryIn office
7 April 1972 – 8 January 1974Prime MinisterEdward HeathPreceded byMaurice MacmillanSucceeded byTom BoardmanFinancial Secretary to the TreasuryIn office
19 June 1970 – 7 April 1972Prime MinisterEdward HeathPreceded byDick TaverneSucceeded byTerence HigginsMember of Parliament
for Wanstead and WoodfordIn office
15 October 1964 – 18 May 1987Preceded byConstituency establishedSucceeded byJames Arbuthnot

Shadow cabinet positions
Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Services
In office 19 November 1976 – 4 May 1979
Leader	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Norman Fowler
Succeeded by	Stan Orme
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy
In office 18 February 1975 – 19 November 1976
Leader	Margaret Thatcher
Succeeded by	John Biffen

Personal detailsBorn
(1926-09-07)7 September 1926^[1]
Edinburgh, ScotlandDied20 December 2016(2016-12-20) (aged 90)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, EnglandNationalityBritishPolitical partyConservativeSpouseMonica Graham (m. 1950, d. 2022)^[2]Children4, including BernardAlma matern.b. ^ As Sec. of State for Trade and Industry.

Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, PC (7 September 1926 – 20 December 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government.

Life and career

Jenkin was born in September 1926 and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Clifton College in Bristol and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called to the bar by the Middle Temple 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.^[3] 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 Margaret Thatcher. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1979 to 1981, then as Secretary of State for Industry until 1983, and finally as Secretary of State for the Environment from 1983 to 1985.

Jenkin retired from the Commons at the 1987 general election. He was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkin of Roding, of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London.^[4][5] Whilst in the Lords, Jenkin was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.^[6] He was noted for his contribution to the debate during the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.^[7] On 6 January 2015 he retired from the House of Lords pursuant to section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.^[8] He died on 20 December 2016, aged 90.^[9][10]

Jenkin was president of the Foundation for Science and Technology, and a vice-president of the Local Government Association.^[3]

Family and personal life

Lord Jenkin's grandfather, Frewen, was the first Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford 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 1954, he married (Alison) Monica Graham (1928–2022). They had two sons and two daughters. Their younger son, Bernard, is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Harwich and North Essex.

Arms

Coat of arms of Patrick Jenkin

Coronet Coronet of a baron Crest On a Mural Crown per pale Argent and Sable a Lion rampant reguardant Sable armed and langued Gules Escutcheon Argent a Lion rampant reguardant Sable armed and langued Gules within a Bordure also Sable Supporters Dexter: a Seal erect on a Rock; Sinister: a Stag erect on a Grassy Mount, all proper Motto Toujours Fidele (Always faithful) [citation needed]

References

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Patrick Jenkin
• The Papers of Lord Jenkin of Roding held at Churchill Archives Centre

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford 1964–1987	Succeeded by James Arbuthnot
Political offices
Preceded by Dick Taverne	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1970–1972	Succeeded by Terence Higgins
Preceded by Maurice Macmillan	Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1972–1974	Succeeded by Tom Boardman
Preceded by David Ennals	Secretary of State for Health and Social Services 1979–1981	Succeeded by Norman Fowler
Preceded by Keith Joseph	Secretary of State for Industry 1981–1983	Succeeded by Cecil Parkinson as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
Preceded by Tom King	Secretary of State for the Environment 1983–1985	Succeeded by Kenneth Baker