Editing Patrick Jenkin

{{short description|British politician}}
{{about-distinguish|the British politician|Patrick Jenkins}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name             = The Lord Jenkin of Roding
|honorific-suffix = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}}
|image            = Charles-Patrick-Fleeming-Jenkin-Baron-Jenkin-of-Roding.jpg
|caption          = Patrick Jenkin
|office           = [[Secretary of State for the Environment]]
|term_start       = 12 June 1983
|term_end         = 2 September 1985
|primeminister    = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|predecessor      = [[Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater|Tom King]]
|successor        = [[Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking|Kenneth Baker]]
|office1          = [[Secretary of State for Industry]]
|term_start1      = 14 September 1981
|term_end1        = 12 June 1983
|primeminister1   = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|predecessor1     = [[Keith Joseph]]
|successor1       = [[Cecil Parkinson]]{{ref label|Trade and Industry|nb}}
|office2          = [[Secretary of State for Social Services]]
|term_start2      = 4 May 1979
|term_end2        = 14 September 1981
|primeminister2   = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|predecessor2     = [[David Ennals]]
|successor2       = [[Norman Fowler]]
|office3          = [[Chief Secretary to the Treasury]]
|primeminister3   = [[Edward Heath]]
|term_start3      = 7 April 1972
|term_end3        = 8 January 1974
|predecessor3     = [[Maurice Macmillan]]
|successor3       = [[Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman|Tom Boardman]]
|office4          = [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]]
|primeminister4   = [[Edward Heath]]
|term_start4      = 19 June 1970
|term_end4        = 7 April 1972
|predecessor4     = [[Dick Taverne]]
|successor4       = [[Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins|Terence Higgins]]
|office5          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Wanstead and Woodford (UK Parliament constituency)|Wanstead and Woodford]]
|term_start5      = 15 October 1964
|term_end5        = 18 May 1987
|predecessor5     = ''Constituency established''
|successor5       = [[James Arbuthnot]]{{Collapsed infobox section begin|[[Shadow cabinet]] positions}}
|office6          = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care|Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social&nbsp;Services]]
|term_start6      = 19 November 1976
|term_end6        = 4 May 1979
|leader6          = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|preceded6        = [[Norman Fowler]]
|succeeded6       = [[Stan Orme]]
|office7          = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Energy]]
|term_start7      = 18 February 1975
|term_end7        = 19 November 1976
|leader7          = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
|preceded7        =
|succeeded7       = [[John Biffen]]{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
|birth_name       = Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin
|birth_date       = {{birth date|1926|9|7|df=y}}<ref>[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-21940?rskey=LqEhAv&result=1 Who Was Who: Jenkin of Roding, Baron cr 1987 (Life Peer), of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London (Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin)]</ref>
|birth_place      = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
|nationality      = British
|death_date       = {{death date and age|2016|12|20|1926|9|7|df=y}}
|death_place      = [[Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk]], England
|party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|alma_mater       = {{ubl|[[Jesus College, Cambridge]]|[[Middle Temple|Middle Temple, Inns of Court]]}}
|spouse           = Monica Graham ({{abbr|m.|married}}{{nnbsp}}1950, {{abbr|d.|died}}{{nnbsp}}2022)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-july-26-2022-hh2qh55dl |title=Births, marriages and deaths: July 26, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=25 July 2022 }}</ref>
|children         = 4, including [[Bernard Jenkin|Bernard]]
|footnotes        = n.b.&nbsp;{{note|Trade and Industry||As [[Secretary of State for Business and Trade|Sec. of State for Trade and Industry]].}}
}}

'''Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding''', {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (7 September 1926 – 20 December 2016) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician who served as a [[cabinet minister]] in [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s [[First Thatcher ministry|first government]].

==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>

==Family and personal life==
Lord Jenkin's grandfather, [[Frewen Jenkin|Frewen]], was the first Professor of [[Engineering Science]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1908 in the newly created [[Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford|Department of Engineering Science]], and the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford. Lord Jenkin's great-grandfather was the engineer [[Fleeming Jenkin]].

In 1954, he married (Alison) Monica Graham (1928–2022). They had two sons and two daughters. Their younger son, [[Bernard Jenkin|Bernard]], is the Conservative Member of Parliament for [[Harwich and North Essex]].

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]] [[File:COA Jenkin of Roding.svg|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Argent a Lion rampant reguardant Sable armed and langued Gules within a Bordure also Sable
|crest = On a Mural Crown per pale Argent and Sable a Lion rampant reguardant Sable armed and langued Gules
|coronet = Coronet of a baron
|supporters =  Dexter:  a Seal erect on a Rock; Sinister:  a Stag erect on a Grassy Mount, all proper
|motto = Toujours Fidele (Always faithful) {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-patrick-jenkin | Patrick Jenkin }}
*[https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1655 The Papers of Lord Jenkin of Roding] held at [[Churchill Archives Centre]]

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