Bryan Gould
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Bryan Gould Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry | |
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In office 13 July 1987 – 2 November 1989 | |
Leader | Neil Kinnock |
Preceded by | John Smith |
Succeeded by | Gordon Brown |
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 30 October 1986 – 13 July 1987 | |
Leader | Neil Kinnock |
Succeeded by | Gordon Brown |
Member of Parliament for Dagenham | |
In office 9 June 1983 – 17 May 1994 | |
Preceded by | John Parker |
Succeeded by | Judith Church |
Member of Parliament for Southampton Test | |
In office 10 October 1974 – 7 April 1979 | |
Preceded by | James Hill |
Succeeded by | James Hill |
Personal details | |
Born | Bryan Charles Gould 11 February 1939 Hāwera, New Zealand |
Nationality | Britain New Zealand |
Political party | Labour |
Relations | George Gould (grandfather) Wayne Gould (brother) |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Website | www |
Bryan Charles Gould
Gould returned to New Zealand and in 2004 was made a director at TVNZ.[2]
Early life and family
Gould was born in
Gould's brother is Wayne Gould, best known for popularising Sudoku. They are descendants of George Gould, a former chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company.[5] In 1967, Bryan Gould married Gillian Anne Harrigan, and the couple went on to have two children.[3]
Parliamentary career
Having fought the seat unsuccessfully in February 1974, Gould was elected Labour MP for Southampton Test in October 1974 and held it until 1979. He worked as a television journalist from 1979 to 1983, and was then elected as MP for Dagenham from 1983, holding the seat until he resigned on 17 May 1994.
Gould was a member of Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet, serving first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, then as spokesman on Trade and Industry, the Environment,[6] and later on Heritage. In 1992 he founded the Full Employment Forum. Later that year he was defeated in the leadership election to succeed Kinnock after the general election, which Labour had lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession. John Smith won the leadership contest,[7] but Gould resigned from Smith's Shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 when the Shadow Cabinet rejected a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and in protest against Labour's support for the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.[8] He resigned his parliamentary seat in May 1994 when he was about to return to New Zealand.
After Parliament
In July 1994, Gould returned to New Zealand and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato, serving until his retirement in 2004. In this position, Gould was instrumental in initiating The Great Race, a rowing race for Waikato University against international universities on the Waikato River. The Bryan Gould Cup for the women's eights race is named after him.[9]
In the
References
- ISBN 978-1-85984-093-1– via Google Books.
- ^ About Bryan Gould BryanGould.com
- ^ ISSN 1172-9813.
- ^ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: G". Shadows of Time. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ Greenaway, Richard LN (June 2007). "Barbadoes Street Cemetery Tour" (PDF). Christchurch City Council. p. 4. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Whitney, Craig R. (15 April 1992). "Laborites to Wait Until July to Pick Leader". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ "1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns". BBC News. 13 April 1992.
- ^ Philip Webster, 'Gould quits over Labour EC policy', The Times (28 September 1992), p. 1.
- ^ "Great Race - The Trophies". The Great Race. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2005". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 6 June 2005. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Honorary Doctors of the University of Waikato". University of Waikato. Archived from the original on 6 April 2001. Retrieved 27 July 2019.