Jenkins, Baron Roy Harris
British politician, born in Monmouthshire, Wales. He became a Labour minister in 1964, was home secretary 1965-67 and 1974-76, and chancellor of the Exchequer 1967-70. He was president of the European Commission 1977-81. In 1981 he became one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party and was elected as an SDP MP in 1982, but lost his seat in 1987. In the same year, he was elected chancellor of Oxford University and made a life peer. In 1997 he was appointed head of a commission, set up by the Labour government, to recommend, in 1998, a new voting system for elections to Parliament.
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