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Roy Jenkins

1920 - 2003

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Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician and writer who served as the sixth President of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. At various times a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and a peer for the Liberal Democrats, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary under the Wilson and Callaghan Governments. The son of Arthur Jenkins, a coal-miner and Labour MP, Jenkins was educated at the University of Oxford and served as an intelligence officer during the Second World War. Initially elected as MP for Southwark Central in 1948, he moved to become MP for Birmingham Stechford in 1950. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Jenkins is the 13,861st most popular politician (up from 14,437th in 2019), the 3,402nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,553rd in 2019) and the 472nd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Roy Jenkins ranks 13,861 out of 19,576. Before him are Masaharta, Ramon Dekkers, Norbert Ratsirahonana, Jules Malou, José Ballivián, and Marcus Valerius Volusus. After him are Vyacheslav Volodin, Emil Voigt, Ikililou Dhoinine, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Valeriano Weyler, and Kitsos Tzavelas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Roy Jenkins ranks 274. Before him are George Herbig, Karen Khachaturian, Janet Jagan, Ross Martin, Maxi Herber, and Kenneth E. Iverson. After him are Eddie Slovik, Eiji Okada, Godfrey Binaisa, André Simon, Clark Terry, and Rosemary Sutcliff. Among people deceased in 2003, Roy Jenkins ranks 214. Before him are Althea Gibson, Olle Anderberg, Vladimír Vašíček, Tomáš Pospíchal, Lewis A. Coser, and Hal Clement. After him are Joel Antônio Martins, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Tranquilo Cappozzo, Horace W. Babcock, Garrett Hardin, and German Apukhtin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roy Jenkins ranks 3,403 out of 8,785. Before him are Carole Pateman (1940), Edith Evans (1888), Anne Treisman (1935), Thomas Gage (1719), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), and G. D. H. Cole (1889). After him are Emil Voigt (1883), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Duncan Grant (1885), Geoff Bent (1932), Alan Young (1919), and Israel Regardie (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Roy Jenkins ranks 472. Before him are Geoffrey Howe (1926), Herbert Lawford (1851), George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758), Ian Paisley (1926), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), and George W. Campbell (1769). After him are Emil Voigt (1883), Thérèse Coffey (1971), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724), Mother Shipton (1488), Tony Abbott (1957), and Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798).

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