Arthur Jenkins | |
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education | |
In office 4 August 1945 – 30 October 1945 | |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Thelma Cazalet-Keir |
Succeeded by | David Hardman |
Member of Parliament for Pontypool | |
In office 14 November 1935 – 25 April 1946 | |
Preceded by | Thomas Griffiths |
Succeeded by | Daniel Granville West |
Personal details | |
Born | Varteg, Monmouthshire, Wales | 3 February 1882
Died | 25 April 1946 St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth, London, England | (aged 64)
Political party | Labour |
Spouse |
Hattie Harris (m. 1911) |
Children | 1, Roy |
Education | Ruskin College |
Arthur Jenkins (3 February 1882 – 25 April 1946) was a Welsh coal-miner, trade unionist and Labour politician who served as vice-president of the South Wales Miners' Federation and MP for Pontypool. He was the father of the Labour (and later Liberal Democrat) politician Roy Jenkins.