Roland Moyle

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Roland Dunstan Moyle (born 12 March 1928) is a British Labour politician.

Moyle was the son of Arthur Moyle, who became a Labour MP and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee. He was educated in Bexleyheath and Llanidloes, and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he chaired the Labour Club in 1953.

He became a barrister, called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1954. He was an industrial relations consultamt 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 indistry from 1965. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Greenwich from 1964 and was President of Greenwich Labour Party.

Moyle was elected Member of Parliament for Lewisham North in 1966, and after boundary changes, for Lewisham East in 1974. He was Northern Ireland minister from 1974 to 1976, and Health minister from 1976 to 1979.

In Labour's landslide defeat of 1983, Moyle lost his seat to the Conservative Colin Moynihan.

[edit] References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and 1983
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Christopher Chataway	Member of Parliament for Lewisham North 1966–1974	Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Lewisham East 1974–1983	Succeeded by Colin Moynihan