Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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 (born 7 September 1926) is a British

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 Conservative

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 politician

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 and the great-grandson of the scientist

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 Fleeming Jenkin

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Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist...

.

Jenkin was educated at the Dragon School

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 in Oxford

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, Clifton College

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 in Bristol

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 and Jesus College

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 at Cambridge

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. He became a barrister, called by the Middle Temple

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 in 1952, and company director. He was a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council

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 1960–63.

Jenkin was the Conservative MP

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 for Woodford

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 from 1964 to 1974 (succeeding Sir Winston Churchill

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 after his retirement) and, after constituency boundary changes, for Wanstead and Woodford

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 from 1974 to 1987, and served as an Opposition spokesman on economic and trade affairs from 1965. He has been a member of the Bow Group

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 since 1951. 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

Margaret Thatcher

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. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services

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 from 1979 to 1981, then as Secretary of State for Industry until 1983, and finally as Secretary of State for the Environment

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 from 1983 to 1985. He was elevated to the House of Lords

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 as a life peer

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 with the title Baron Jenkin of Roding, of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London

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 in 1987.

Currently, Lord Jenkin of Roding is president of the Foundation for Science and Technology

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, and is a vice-president of the Local Government Association

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. His son, Bernard Jenkin

Bernard Jenkin

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, has also become a Member of Parliament.

Lord Jenkin's grandfather, Frewin Jenkin, was the first Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 1908 in the newly created Department of Engineering Science

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

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, and is the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford. Lord Jenkin is acting as Patron of the department's Centenary in 2008.

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