Editing Reg Prentice (section)

{{Short description|British politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name             = The Lord Prentice
|birthname=Reginald Ernest Prentice
|honorific-suffix = [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]]
|image            = Reg Prentice 1963.jpg
|caption          = 1963
{{Collapsed infobox section begin|Frontbench portfolios 1964–1981|div=yes}}
|office           =[[Minister for Disabled People|Minister of State for Social Security]]
|primeminister    = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|term_start       = 7 May 1979
|term_end         = 5 January 1981
|predecessor      = [[Alf Morris]]
|successor        = [[Hugh Rossi]]
|office1          = [[Secretary of State for International Development|Minister of State for Overseas Development]]
|primeminister1   = [[Harold Wilson]]<br>[[James Callaghan]]
|term_start1      = 10 June 1975
|term_end1        = 21 December 1976
|predecessor1     = [[Judith Hart]]
|successor1       = [[Frank Judd]]
|primeminister2   = [[Harold Wilson]]
|term_start2      = 29 August 1967
|term_end2        = 6 October 1969
|predecessor2     = [[Arthur Bottomley]]
|successor2       = [[Judith Hart]]
|office3          = [[Secretary of State for&nbsp;Education&nbsp;and&nbsp;Science]]
|primeminister3   = [[Harold Wilson]]
|term_start3      = 5 March 1974
|term_end3        = 10 June 1975
|predecessor3     = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|successor3       = [[Fred Mulley]]
|office4          = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Employment]]
|leader4          = [[Harold Wilson]]
|term_start4      = 19 April 1972
|term_end4        = 5 March 1974
|predecessor4     = [[James Callaghan]]
|successor4       = [[William Whitelaw]]
|office5          = [[First Commissioner of Works|Minister of State for Public Buildings and Works]]
|primeminister5   = [[Harold Wilson]]
|term_start5      = 6 April 1966
|term_end5        = 29 August 1967
|predecessor5     = [[Charles Pannell]]
|successor5       = [[Bob Mellish]]
|office6          = [[Department for Education|Minister of State for Education and Science]]
|primeminister6   = [[Harold Wilson]]
|term_start6      = 20 October 1964
|term_end6        = 6 April 1966
|predecessor6     = [[Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton|Peter Legh]]
|successor6       = [[Goronwy Roberts]]
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
|office7          = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] <br> for [[Daventry (UK Parliament constituency)|Daventry]]
|term_start7      = 3 May 1979
|term_end7        = 18 May 1987
|predecessor7     = [[Arthur Jones (Conservative politician)|Arthur Jones]]
|successor7       = [[Tim Boswell]]
|office8          = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] <br> for [[Newham North East]]<br>{{small|[[East Ham North]] (1957–1974)}}
|term_start8      = 31 May 1957
|term_end8        = 7 April 1979
|predecessor8     = [[Percy Daines]]
|successor8       = [[Ron Leighton]]
|birth_date       = {{birth date|1923|7|16|df=y}}
|birth_place      = [[Croydon]]
|death_date       = {{death date and age|2001|1|18|1923|7|16|df=y}}
|death_place      = [[Mildenhall, Wiltshire]]
|party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] <small>(1977–2001)</small>
|otherparty       = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] <small>(before 1977)</small>
|alma_mater       = [[London School of Economics]]
}}

'''Reginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice''', [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]] (16 July 1923 – 18 January 2001)<ref name ="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75257?docPos=1 |title=Prentice, Reginald Ernest [Reg], Baron Prentice|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/75257 |accessdate=16 November 2021}}</ref> was a British politician who held ministerial office in both [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] governments. He was the most senior Labour figure ever to defect to the Conservative Party.