Editing Patrick Jenkin (section)

==Life and career==
Jenkin was born in September 1926 and educated at the [[Dragon School]] in [[Oxford]], [[Clifton College]] in [[Bristol]] and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]]. He became a barrister, called to the bar by the [[Middle Temple]] in 1952, and company director. He was a councillor on [[Hornsey Borough Council]] from 1960 to 1963.

The following year, Jenkin became the Conservative Member of Parliament for [[Wanstead and Woodford (UK Parliament constituency)|Wanstead and Woodford]]. From 1965, he served as an Opposition spokesman on economic and trade affairs. He was a member of the [[Bow Group]] from 1951.<ref name="Parliament"/> In January 1974, he became Minister for Energy just weeks before the Conservatives fell from office, and participated in many ways in the government of [[Margaret Thatcher]]. He served as [[Secretary of State for Social Services]] from 1979 to 1981, then as [[President of the Board of Trade|Secretary of State for Industry]] until 1983, and finally as [[Secretary of State for the Environment]] from 1983 to 1985.

Jenkin retired from the Commons at the 1987 general election. He was elevated to the [[House of Lords]] as a [[life peer]] with the title '''Baron Jenkin of Roding''', of Wanstead and Woodford in [[Greater London]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=51014|date=30 July 1987|pages=1–2 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=51113|date=6 November 1987|page=1}}</ref> Whilst in the Lords, Jenkin was interviewed in 2012 as part of [[The History of Parliament]]'s oral history project.<ref name="HoPJenkin">{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/oral-history/member/jenkin-patrick-1926|title=Oral history: JENKIN, Patrick (b.1926)|publisher=[[The History of Parliament]]|access-date=14 July 2016}}</ref> He was noted for his contribution to the debate during the passage of the [[Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/06/04/lord-jenkin-i-was-taught-that-condemning-a-homosexual-is-the-same-as-condemning-someone-with-red-hair/|title=Lord Jenkin: I was taught that condemning a homosexual is the same as condemning someone with red hair|newspaper=PinkNews|access-date=2016-12-21}}</ref> On 6 January 2015 he retired from the House of Lords pursuant to section 1 of the [[House of Lords Reform Act 2014]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150106-0001.htm|title=Lords Hansard text for 06 Jan 2015 (pt 0001)|website=publications.parliament.uk}}</ref> He died on 20 December 2016, aged 90.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|last=Elgot|first=Jessica|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/21/former-tory-minister-lord-patrick-jenkin-dies-aged-90|title=Former Tory minister Lord Jenkin dies aged 90|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=21 December 2016|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/story/former-cabinet-minister-lord-jenkin-dies-aged-90-10703982|title=Former Cabinet minister Lord Jenkin dies|publisher=Sky News|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-12-21}}</ref>

Jenkin was president of the [[Foundation for Science and Technology]], and a vice-president of the [[Local Government Association]].<ref name="Parliament">{{cite web|title=UK Parliament Biography|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-jenkin-of-roding/1097|publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom}}</ref>