Roland Dunstan Moyle is a British

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 Labour

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 politician.

Moyle's father, Arthur Moyle

Arthur Moyle, Baron Moyle

Arthur Moyle, Baron Moyle CBE was a British bricklayer, trade union official and politician. As a Member of Parliament for nineteen years, he was principally known for serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee during Attlee's Premiership...

, became a Labour Member of Parliament and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary

Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

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. Roland Moyle was educated in Bexleyheath

Bexleyheath

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 and Llanidloes

Llanidloes

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, and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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, Cambridge

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, where he chaired the Labour Club in 1953.

He became a barrister, called to the bar by Gray's Inn

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 in 1954. He was an industrial relations consultant and worked as secretary of the National Joint Industrial Council to the Gas Industry, and National Joint Council in Gas Staffs from 1956 and the sister body in the electrical industry from 1965. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Greenwich

London Borough of Greenwich

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 from 1964 and was president of Greenwich Labour Party.

Moyle was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Lewisham North

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 in 1966, and after boundary changes, for Lewisham East in 1974. After a spell as Parliamentary Secretary

Parliamentary Secretary

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 to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

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, he was Minister of State

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 for Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1976, and for Health from 1976 to 1979.

In 1977, during a dispute with a neighbour who regularly used Moyle's lawn in Montpelier Row, Blackheath, London

Blackheath, London

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, as a shortcut, he was deliberately run down and injured by a motorcycle ridden by Stephen Freestone.

In Labour's landslide general election defeat of 1983

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, Moyle lost his seat to the Conservative

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 Colin Moynihan

Colin Moynihan

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.