Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding

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Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding (born September 7, 1926) is a British Conservative politician and a descendant of the scientist Fleeming Jenkin.

Jenkin was educated at Clifton College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called by the Middle Temple in 1952, and company director. He was a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council 1960-63.

Jenkin was the Conservative MP for Wanstead and Woodford from 1964 to 1987, and served as an Opposition spokesman on economic and trade affairs from 1965. He joined the Bow Group. 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 Secretary of State for Industry until 1983, and finally as Secretary of State for the Environment from 1983 to 1985. 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 in 1987.

Currently, Lord Jenkin of Roding serves on the Foundation for Science and Technology as a chairman, and as a vice-chairman of the Local Government Association. His son, Bernard Jenkin, has also become a Member of Parliament and spokesman for the Tories.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Winston Churchill	Member of Parliament for Woodford 1964–1974	Succeeded by: (constituency renamed)See: Wanstead and Woodford
Preceded by: (new constituency) See: Woodford	Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford 1974–1987	Succeeded by: James Arbuthnot
Political offices
Preceded by: Dick Taverne	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1970–1972	Succeeded by: Terence Higgins
Preceded by: David Ennals	Secretary of State for Social Services 1979–1981	Succeeded by: Norman Fowler
Preceded by: Sir Keith Joseph	Secretary of State for Industry 1981–1983	Succeeded by: —
Preceded by: Tom King	Secretary of State for the Environment 1983–1985	Succeeded by: Kenneth Baker