Roland Moyle
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| Minister of State, Health and Social Security | |
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| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | David Owen |
| Succeeded by | Gerard Vaughan |
| Minister of State, Northern Ireland | |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson James Callaghan |
| Succeeded by | Peter Mond |
| Parliamentary Secretary to Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Robert Shirley |
| Succeeded by | Edward Bishop |
| Member of Parliament for Lewisham East Lewisham North (1966–1974) | |
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| Preceded by | Christopher Chataway |
| Succeeded by | Colin Moynihan |
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| Born | Roland Dunstan Moyle Script error: No such module "person date". |
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| Party | Labour |
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| University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Trinity Hall, Cambridge | |
| Occupation | Barrister |
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Roland Dunstan Moyle PC (12 March 1928 – 14 July 2017) was a British Labour politician.
Early life
Moyle was born in March 1928. His father was Arthur Moyle who was a Labour Member of Parliament and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee. Moyle 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 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 from 1964 and was president of Greenwich Labour Party.
Member of Parliament
Moyle was elected Member of Parliament for Lewisham North in 1966, and after boundary changes, for Lewisham East in 1974.
After a spell as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, he was Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1976, and Minister of Health from 1976 to 1979. Privy counsellor 1978.
In Labour's landslide general election defeat of 1983, Moyle lost his seat to the Conservative Colin Moynihan.
Later life and death
Moyle later became deputy chairman of the police complaints authority 1985 to 1991.
He died on 14 July 2017 at the age of 89.[1]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Roland Moyle Obituary (2017) - Legacy Remembers". Legacy.com. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and 1983
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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