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	Roy Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
		Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the Obscene Publications Act, which was responsible for establishing the liable to "deprave and corrupt" criteria as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and literary merit as a defence.
		Jenkins replied to public criticism by asserting that the so called permissive society was in reality the civilised society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Jenkins (765 words)

	Roy Jenkins biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (November 11, 1920 - January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour MP in the 1960s and 1970s and founder member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
		Jenkins split from the Labour party over policy and, as one of the so-called "gang of four", was a founder of the SDP in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.
		Jenkins is the author of 19 books, including a biography of Gladstone (1995), which won the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Biography, and a much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill (2001).
	roy-jenkins.biography.ms (492 words)

	ROY JENKINS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November_11, 1920 – January_5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member_of_Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
		Born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire in south-eastern Wales, as an only child, Roy Jenkins was the son of a National_Union_of_Mineworkers official, Arthur_Jenkins, who was wrongly imprisoned during the 1926 General_Strike for his supposed involvement in a riot, and later an MP, who was Parliamentary_Private_Secretary to Clement_Attlee and briefly a minister in the 1945 government.
		Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the Obscene_Publications_Act, which was responsible for establishing the liable to "deprave and corrupt" criteria as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and literary merit as a defence.
	www.gottaorderflowers.com /Roy_Jenkins (777 words)

	Roy Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour MP in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
		He was the son of an National Union of Mineworkers official, Arthur Jenkins, who was wrongly imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his supposed involvement in a riot, and later a MP, who was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and briefly a minister in the 1945 government.
		Jenkins is the author of 19 books, including a biography of Gladstone (1995), which won the 1995 Whitbread Award for Biography, and a much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill (2001).
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Roy_Jenkins (804 words)

	Roy Jenkins
		Roy Jenkins was born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, on 11th November, 1920.
		Jenkins was educated at Abersychan Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he won a first in 1941.
		Jenkins became leader of the new party and in 1982 he returned to the House of Commons as MP for Glasgow Hillhead.
	www.historiasiglo20.org /pioneers/jenkins.htm (515 words)

	LDYS - Roy Jenkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Jenkins attained, or came near to attaining, the liberal ideal of a person fulfilling their potential.
		Roy Jenkins was able to fulfil his potential because of the availability of free higher education regardless of social or economic background.
		Roy Jenkins, as Home Secretary, instilled into British politics a measure of tolerance, equality, and respect for liberty and conscience that deserves to be defended, and needs to be fought for today as much as then.
	www.ldys.org.uk /web/policy/royjenkins.html (293 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Roy Jenkins's Churchill: A Biography
		Jenkins book is eminently worth reading, and, as a fellow politician, he offers a unique perspective on Churchill's career, but I suspect most Churchillophiles (a group which appears to consist almost exclusively of Americans) will be somewhat, or very, disappointed in many of Mr.
		Jenkins is again dismissive of Churchill's warnings in regard to the Soviets at the end of WWII.
		Jenkins is the former President of the European Commission, it may be that he's overstating the case, but one reels at the notion that Winston Churchill, having played a leading role in fighting the Germans in two World Wars, would today be supportive of placing England under the heel of German and French bureaucrats.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/143 (3008 words)

	'Churchill' by Roy Jenkins
		Jenkins is an ideal writer to relate the life of the legendary prime minister.
		Jenkins’ book has an exhaustive index and is well illustrated with 80 fl-and-white photos from all stages of Churchill’s life and a dozen color reproductions of paintings by and of him.
		The grandson of a duke, Churchill was born in a palace.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020113review919.asp (877 words)

	Roy Harris Jenkins Biography / Biography of Roy Harris Jenkins Biography Biography
		Roy Harris Jenkins (born 1920), British Labour politician and author, was a leading member of the cabinet before becoming president of the European Community and later a founder of the Social Democratic Party.
		Roy Jenkins was born on November 11, 1920, the son of Arthur Jenkins, a Welsh miner who became an officer of his union and later a Labour member of Parliament.
		Roy was educated at Abersychan Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first class honors in politics, philosophy, and economics in 1941, having already been active in student politics and debate.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-roy-harris-jenkins/index.html (249 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Roy Jenkins - Politician
		Jenkins' reward for his continued support of the European ideal was being appointed the first British President of the European Commission, a post he held from 1977 to 1980.
		Jenkins was to represent Glasgow Hillhead in the Commons until 1987, when he lost his seat and retired.
		Among Jenkins' books is his autobiography, A Life At The Centre (1991), a play on the fact that while at the centre of Labour politics, his left wing colleagues eventually found in Jenkins a champion for the centre and the forthcoming Liberal Democrats.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1004437 (1573 words)

	Churchill, by Roy Jenkins
		In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins's unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.
		Jenkins shows in fascinating detail how Churchill educated himself for greatness, how he worked out his livelihood (writing) as well as his professional life (politics), how he situated himself at every major site or moment in British imperial and governmental life.
		Jenkins effortlessly evokes the spirit of Westminster through all these decades, especially the crisis years of the late 1930s and the terrifying 1940s, when at last it was clear how vital Churchill was to the very survival of Britain.
	www.fsgbooks.com /fsg/churchill.htm (556 words)

	RIP: Lord Jenkins of Hillhead OMGoodbye to the Great Grapefruit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The young Roy Jenkins was a callow youth, who later to confessed to having been more upset, as he took his Finals in June 1940, at his second defeat for the Presidency of the Oxford Union than by Fall of France.
		Jenkins’ thesis always was rubbish — an excuse for a progressive party of the Left in which the trade unions would have less influence and middle-class technocrats like Jenkins would have more.
		Jenkins, as David Owen realised twenty years ago, epitomised a certain strand of liberal opinion which puts negotiation and compromise above leadership, and which, beneath the pretence of “civilised” tolerance, is in fact very intolerant of those who do not share its views.
	www.electric-review.com /archives/000029.html (2900 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Obituary: Roy Jenkins
		Roy Jenkins was a civilised, liberal, decent politician, for those who liked him.
		Roy Jenkins was a natural choice to be the first British President of the European Commission, where his term was primarily remembered for reviving the idea of European monetary union.
		Roy Jenkins was a private man, his manner, which his friends said was a product of his overwhelming shyness, was frequently off-putting.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/980382.stm (776 words)

	Churchill by Roy Jenkins
		Jenkins has produced an extraordinarily readable account of the political life of Churchill.
		The only criticism of the book, and this is surely caviling, is that Jenkins dispenses with Churchill's youth and childhood in lightning-quick order, moving swiftly from Churchill's aristocratic background to his first political campaigns at high speed.
		Jenkins is on firm ground when it comes to the ins and outs of the British political climate, and at times the intricacies of parties and politics may temporarily overwhelm the account of Churchill the man. These are minor drawbacks to an otherwise rich, compelling work.
	www.britainexpress.com /Bookstore/History/churchill.htm (256 words)

	Roy Jenkins
		On Sunday evening I heard that Roy Jenkins had died, and, piddling though my parody, I began to wish I hadn't written it.
		Watching Tony Benn ("Frankly, Roy was never a man of the people") and Edward Heath ("it is arguable whether he was the kind of person who would have made a great Prime Minister") being so peevish in their praises on the Channel 4 News, I found myself shouting back in his defence.
		"Roy Jenkins was in little doubt that a willingness by Blair to put Britain at the heart of Europe was key to his claiming greatness"
	clublet.com /c/c/why?page=RoyJenkins (1029 words)

	Jenkins, Roy, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Jenkins was instrumental in liberalizing British society and in...
		Mary Jenkins was born in Waterloo, Md., in 1817.
		The French-Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy was praised for her skill in depicting the hopes and frustrations of the poor.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043521?tocId=9043521 (733 words)

	Roy Jenkins death
		Initially, Jenkins and his co-conspirators continued openly as if nothing was afoot whilst plotting to form a new party from behind the scenes, but they could not hold back forever.
		David Owen who replaced Jenkins as leader after 1983 had not only moved much to the right but had also developed even more allusions of grandeur than was normally the case for these people.
		Jenkins' treacherous role in the Labour movement serves as a warning to the whole movement of the double agenda being carried out by the right wing, effectively seeking to serve two masters but in the final analysis serving only one, that of capital.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/roy_jenkins_death.html (1079 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Churchill: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jenkins has a propensity for unnecessary French and curious adverbs (unfriendlily), adjectives (spistolatory) and nouns (peripherist) and is at his best exploring Churchill's three out-of-office "wilderness" periods and his writing jobs (requiring a staff of loyal, ill-paid researchers and secretaries to take his clangorous dictation), which helped support his expensive lifestyle.
		Jenkins writes from a perspective of a man who sat in the House of Commons, witnessed Churchill in action, and documents his life primarily as a politician.
		Jenkins is a fine writer and deeply knowledgable about England, parliament in particular and Churchill but this is a perverse biography which is of use for only one group of people: those readers whose main interest is Churchill's parliamentary career as written by an insider.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374123543?v=glance (2866 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Churchill: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness.
		Roy Jenkin's "Churchill" is an exhaustive biographical picture of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century.
		Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330488058 (1387 words)

	Roy Jenkins
		Roy Jenkins, himself a Birmingham MP, rightly accused the Government of causing 'enormous damage' to the chances of success of the simultaneous Hungarian revolt against Russia 'for the sake of a squalid adventure in the Middle East'.
		After serving twice as home secretary in a Labour Government, Lord Jenkins was one of the "Gang of Four" who formed the breakaway SDP party in 1981.
		Roy Jenkins was one of the most remarkable people ever to grace British politics.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRjenkinsR.htm (1222 words)

	OUP: Roy Jenkins: Adonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Jenkins was a dominating figure in British politics across the four decades before his death in 2003, with an impact and legacy greater than many prime ministers of the period.
		His name is synonymous with the rise of the liberal society in the 1960s and beyond, and with the development of progressive social democratic politics spanning the forty years between the death of his mentor Hugh Gaitskell and the premiership of his friend - and some would say protégé - Tony Blair.
		At the heart of the Establishment, yet among its most effective reformers and critics; a son of the valleys who became a connoisseur of the best things in life, he was an object of the deepest loyalty and the fiercest antipathy - and among the most caricatured and celebrated figures of the day.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-927487-8 (773 words)

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