Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
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In office 19 May 1981 – 26 January 2004 Life peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Putney | |
In office 15 October 1964 – 7 April 1979 | |
Preceded by | Sir Hugh Linstead |
Succeeded by | David Mellor |
Personal details | |
Born | Hugh Gater Jenkins 27 July 1908 Enfield, England |
Died | 26 January 2004 | (aged 95)
Political party | Labour |
Spouses | Marie Crosbie
(m. 1936; died 1989)Helena Maria Pavlidis
(m. 1991; died 1994) |
Education | Second World War |
Hugh Gater Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney,
Jenkins was MP for Putney and served as Arts Minister from 1974 to 1976. He was the Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) between 1979 and 1981, succeeded by Joan Ruddock.[3]
His private papers are held at the London School of Economics.[4]
Before politics
Jenkins was born in Enfield, Middlesex, into a 'modest' family, his parents being a dairyman and a butcher's daughter.[3] He attended Enfield Grammar School and went to work for the Prudential Assurance 1930–40. He married his first wife, Marie Crosbie, in 1936. She died in 1989 and he married a second time to Helena Maria Pavlidis in 1991.[1] Helena died in 1994.[1] During World War II he served with the Royal Observer Corps and the Royal Air Force from 1941, and after the war worked at Rangoon Radio until 1947, where he was director of English-language programmes.[1]
Political life
An ardent left-winger, Jenkins was active in the Prudential Staff Association, the
Jenkins won
Jenkins continued to write pamphlets and radio plays, serving on the board of the Royal National Theatre. His later plays were typed on an early Amstrad 256. He said he became 'computerised' late in life. His parliamentary correspondence and speeches continued to be typed on the same Amstrad 256 until he entered a care home at the end of his life in 2004.
CND
Jenkins was a long time
References
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- ^ "Hugh Gater Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Lord Jenkins of Putney". the Guardian. 28 January 2004. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "JENKINS, Hugh Gater, b 1908, Baron Jenkins of Putney, politician - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "No. 48615". The London Gazette. 19 May 1981. p. 6951.
- ^ a b "CND - Press Release- War crimes in Basra". 9 March 2006. Archived from the original on 9 March 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2023.