The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990 (121 page)

HOLLAND, Stuart. Labour MP for Vauxhall, 1979–89. Formerly Economic Assistant, Cabinet Office, 1966–7; and Personal Assistant to Prime Minister, 1967–8.

HOUGHTON, Douglas. Chairman of the PLP, 1967–74. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1964–6; Minister without Portfolio, 1966–7. Labour MP for Sowerby, 1949–74. Created a life peer in 1974.

HOWE, Geoffrey. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1979–83. Foreign Secretary, 1983–9. Solicitor-General, 1970–2; and Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs, 1972–4. Conservative MP for Reigate, 1970–4; Surrey East, 1974–92.

HUNT, John. Secretary of the Cabinet, 1973–9. Created a life peer, Lord Hunt of Tanworth, in 1980.

HURD, Douglas. Minister of State, in Foreign and Home Offices, 1979–84. Home Secretary, 1985–9; and Foreign Secretary, 1989–95. Conservative MP for Witney since 1983, for Mid-Oxon, 1974–83. Contested party leadership, 1990.

INGHAM, Bernard. Chief Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1979–90. Director of Information at the Department of Energy, 1974–8; Chief Information Officer at the Department of Employment and Productivity, 1968–73. Reporter on the
Yorkshire Post
and the
Guardian,
1952–67.

JAY, Douglas. President of the Board of Trade, 1964–7. Labour MP for North Battersea, 1946–83. Created a life peer in 1987.

JENKINS, Clive. General Secretary of the Association of Scientific Technical and Managerial Staffs, 1970–88. Member of the General Council of the TUC, 1974–8.

JENKINS, Roy. President of the European Commission, 1977–81. Minister of Aviation, 1964–5; Home Secretary, 1965–7. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1967–70. Home Secretary, 1974–6. Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 1970–2. Labour MP for Central Southwark, 1948–50, for Stechford, 1950–76. Leader of the SDP, 1981–3; and SDP MP for Glasgow Hillhead, 1982–7. Created a life peer, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, in 1987.

JONES, Elwyn (1909–89). Lord Chancellor, 1974–9. Attorney-General, 1964–70. Labour MP for Plaistow, 1945–50, for West Ham South, 1950–74, and for Newham South, February to May 1974, when he was created a life peer, Lord Elwyn-Jones.

JONES, Jack. Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General
Workers’ Union, 1963–9, General Secretary, 1969–78. Vice-President of Age Concern since 1978.

JOSEPH, Keith (1918–95). Secretary of State for Social Services, 1970–4, for Industry, 1979–81; and Education and Science, 1981–6. Junior Minister from 1959–64. Conservative MP for Leeds North East, 1956–87. Created a life peer in 1987.

KAUFMAN, Gerald. Minister of State, Department of Industry, 1975–9. Labour Party press officer, 1965–70. Previously journalist on
Daily Mirror
and
New Statesman.
Labour MP for Manchester Ardwick, 1970–83, and Manchester Gorton since 1983.

KEARTON, Frank. Chairman and Chief Executive of the British National Oil Corporation, 1975–9. Chairman of Courtaulds, 1964–75. First Chairman of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, 1966–8. Created a life peer in 1970.

KING, Cecil (1901–87). Chairman, International Publishing Corporation (IPC), 1963–8. A director of the Bank of England, 1965–8. Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers Limited, 1951–63.

KINNOCK, Neil. Leader of the Labour Party, 1983–92, Chair, 1987/8. Labour MP for Bedwelty, 1970–83, Islwyn, 1983–94

KNIGHTON, William. Principal Private Secretary to Tony Benn at the Ministry of Technology, 1966–8.

LANSMAN, Jon. Coordinator of Benn’s deputy leadership campaign, 1981.

LEE, Jennie (1904–88). Under-Secretary, then Minister at the Department of Education and Science, 1965–70, responsible for establishing the Open University. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1967/8. MP for North Lanark, 1929–31, and Cannock, 1945–70. Widow of Aneurin Bevan, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Created a life peer in 1970.

LESTOR, Joan. Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1974–5, and at the Department of Education and Science, 1975–6, resigning her post over public-expenditure cuts. UnderSecretary at the Department of Education and Science, 1969–70. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1977/8. Labour MP for Eton and Slough, 1966–83, and Eccles since 1987.

LEVER, Harold. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1974–9. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1967–9; Paymaster-General, 1969–70. Created a life peer, Lord Lever of Manchester, in 1979.

LIVINGSTONE, Ken. Leader of Greater London Council, 1981–6. Labour MP for Brent East since 1987.

MABON, Dickson (Dick). Minister of State at the Department of Energy, 1976–9. Chairman of the Labour Committee for Europe and the European Movement between 1974 and 1976. Labour MP for Greenock from 1955. Joined the SDP in 1981 and sat as SDP Member, 1981–3.

McELHONE, Frank (1929–82). Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1975–9. PPS to Tony Benn, 1974–5. Labour MP for Gorbals, 1969–74, Glasgow Queen’s Park, 1974–82.

McGAHEY, Mick. Vice-President, National Union of Mineworkers, 1973–87. President, Scottish Area of the NUM, 1967–87. Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1974–8.

MACLEOD, Iain (1913–70). Leader of the House of Commons, 1961–3, and Chairman of the Conservative Party during that period. Served in the 1951–64 Conservative governments as Minister of Health, Minister of Labour and Colonial Secretary. Chancellor of the Exchequer, June-July 1970. Conservative MP for Enfield, 1950–70.

MACMILLAN, Harold (1894–1986). Prime Minister from 1957 until his retirement in October 1963, previously Minister of Defence, 1954–5; Foreign Secretary, 1955; and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1955–7. Created Earl of Stockton, 1984. Conservative MP for Stockton-on-Tees, 1924–9, 1931–45, and for Bromley, 1945–64.

MANLEY, Ivor. Principal Private Secretary to Tony Benn at the Ministry of Technology, 1968–70. Principal Establishment Officer, Department of Energy, 1974–8, and Deputy Secretary since 1981.

MARSH, Richard. Minister of Power, 1966–8. Minister of Transport, 1968–9. Labour MP for Greenwich, 1959–71. Resigned his seat and became Chairman of British Railways Board, 1971–6. Created a life peer in 1981, and left the Labour Party.

MARSHALL, Walter. Chief Scientist, Department of Energy, 1974–7; Deputy Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1975–81. Chairman of the UKAEA, 1981–2, and of the Central Electricity Generating Board since 1982. From 1968–75, Director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. Created a life peer, Lord Marshall of Goring, in 1985.

MASON, Roy. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1976–9. Minister of Defence, 1967–8, and of Power, 1968–9; and President of the Board of Trade, 1969–70. Secretary of State for Defence, 1974–6. Labour MP for Barnsley, 1953–87. Created a life peer in 1987.

MAXWELL, Robert (1923–91). Owner of Pergamon Press and Labour MP for Buckingham, 1964–70, Chairman of the Mirror Group of Newspapers.

MAYHEW, Christopher. Appointed Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy in 1964, resigned in 1966. Labour MP for South Norfolk, 1945–50; and for Woolwich East, 1951–July 1974, when he resigned from the Labour Party to join the Liberal Party. Sat as a Liberal MP for Woolwich East for three months. Created a life peer in 1981.

MAYNARD, Joan. Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside, October 1974–87. Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party, 1980/1.

MEACHER, Michael. Labour MP for Oldham West since 1970. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry, 1974–5, Health and Social Security, 1975–6, and Trade, 1976–9.

MELLISH, Robert. Labour MP for Bermondsey from 1946 to 1982, when he resigned from the Labour Party and sat as an Independent. Deputy Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation from 1981. Government Chief Whip, 1969–70 and 1974–6. Opposition Chief Whip, 1970–4. Created a life peer in 1985.

MELVILLE, Ronald. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Aviation, subsequently Ministry of Technology, 1966–71.

MIKARDO, Ian (1908–83). Labour MP for Poplar, 1964–74, and for Bethnal Green and Bow, 1974–87. MP for Reading, and South Reading,1945–59. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1970/1. A close associate of Aneurin Bevan and sometime chairman of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs.

MILIBAND, Ralph (1924–94). Professor of Politics, Leeds University, 1972–7, and visiting Professor of the Graduate School, City University of New York.

MONCKTON, Sir Walter. Conservative MP for Bristol West. Minister of Labour, Minister of Defence and Paymaster-General consecutively, 1950–7.

MORRELL, Frances. Leader of Inner London Education Authority, 1983–7. Political adviser to Tony Benn, 1974–9. Press officer for the National Union of Students and the Fabian Society, 1970–2. Previously a schoolteacher, 1960–9.

MORRISON, Herbert (1888–1965). Deputy Prime Minister, 1945–51; and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 1945–55. Foreign Secretary, 1951. Labour MP for South Hackney, East Lewisham and South Lewisham intermittently between 1923–59. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1928/9. Leader of the London County Council, 1934–40. Served in the wartime coalition Cabinet. Created a life peer in 1959.

MORTIMER, Jim. Chairman, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration
Service, 1974–81. General Secretary of the Labour Party, 1982–5.

MULLEY, Fred (1918–95). Secretary for Defence, 1976–9. Minister of Transport, 1969–70, and Secretary of State for Education and Science, 1975–6. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1974/5. Labour MP for Sheffield Park, 1950–83. Created a life peer in 1984.

MULLIN, Chris. Editor of
Arguments for Socialism
and
Arguments for Democracy
by Tony Benn; editor of
Tribune
, 1982–4. Author of
A Very British Coup
, and other political novels, and
Error of Judgement
. Labour MP for Sunderland South since 1987.

MURRAY, Len. General Secretary of the TUC, 1973–84. Member of the TUC staff from 1947. Created a life peer, 1985.

ORME, Stan. Labour MP for Salford West, 1964–83, and for Salford East since 1983. Minister of State for Social Security, 1976–7; and Minister for Social Security, 1977–9. Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1974–6. Chairman of the PLP since 1987.

OWEN, David. Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton, 1966-74, and Plymouth Devonport, 1974–81. Founder member of the SDP, 1981; and sat as SDP Member, 1981–3; SDP MP for Devonport, 1983–92. Minister, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1976–7; then Foreign Secretary, following Tony Crosland’s death, 1977–9. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, then Minister of State, at the Department of Health and Social Security, 1974–6. Created a life peer in 1992.

PAGET, Reginald (1908–90). Labour MP for Northampton, 1945–74. Created a life peer in 1974.

PANNELL, Charles (1902–80). Minister of Public Building and Works, 1964–6. Labour MP for Leeds West, 1949–74. Created a life peer in 1974.

PART, Antony (1916-90). Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-4, and the Department of Industry, 1974–6.

PEARSON, Denning (Jim). Chairman of Rolls Royce, 1969–70. Joined Rolls Royce in 1932. Member of the NEDC, 1964–70.

PEAY, Ken. Broadcasting officer, Labour Party headquarters.

PENNEY, William. Chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority, 1964–7. A wartime pioneer of nuclear weapons. Director of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston; and Rector of Imperial College, London, 1967–73. Created a life peer in 1967.

PLIATZKY, Leo. Under-Secretary at the Treasury, 1967–71, and Second
Permanent Secretary, 1971–6. Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade, 1977–9.

POWELL, Enoch. Minister of Health, 1960–3. Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, 1950–74. Stood down as Conservative candidate in February 1974. United Ulster Unionist MP for Down South, October 1974–9, Official Unionist Party, 1979–87.

PRENTICE, Reg. Labour MP for East Ham North, 1951–74, Newham North East, 1974–9. Crossed the floor in 1977 and sat on the Conservative benches until 1979. In 1979 he was elected Conservative MP for Daventry and sat for Daventry until 1987; he was Minister for Social Security, 1979–81, in the Conservative Government.

PRESCOTT, John. Labour MP for Hull East since 1970. Member of European Parliament, 1975–9. Contested Party deputy leadership in 1988.

PRIMAROLO, Dawn. Secretary of Bristol South East Labour Party, 1979–83. Labour MP for Bristol South since 1987.

PRIOR, James (Jim). Secretary of State for Employment, 1978–81; Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1981–4. Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, 1972–4. Conservative MP for Lowestoft, 1959–83, and Waveney, 1983–7. Created a life peer in 1987.

RAMPTON, Jack. Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Energy, 1974–80. Formerly a senior official at the Ministry of Technology and the Department of Trade and Industry, 1968–74.

REES, Merlyn. Home Secretary, 1976–9. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, 1965–8, and Home Office, 1968–70. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1974–6. Labour MP for South Leeds, 1963–83, and for Morley and Leeds South, 1983–92. Created a life peer Lord Merlyn-Rees in 1992.

RICHARDSON, Jo (1923–94). Labour MP for Barking, February 1974–1994. Chair of Labour Party, 1989/90.

RIDLEY, Nicholas (1929–93). Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Technology, 1970; and Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, 1970–2. Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1979–81; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1981–3; Secretary of State for Transport, 1983–6, and for the Environment. Conservative MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury, 1959–XX. Created a life peer in 1992.

RODGERS, William (Bill). Secretary of State for Transport, 1976–9. Labour MP for Stockton-on-Tees (Teesside, Stockton from 1974), 1962–81. Founder member of the SDP in 1981 and sat as SDP MP for same seat, 1981–3. Created a life peer in 1992.

ROGERS, Herbert. Election Agent for Tony Benn, 1951–70. Secretary of the East Bristol Independent Labour Party from 1912.

ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882–1945). President USA, 1933–45.

ROSS, William (1911–88). Secretary of State for Scotland, 1964–70, and 1974–6. Labour MP for Kilmarnock, 1946–79. Created a life peer in 1979.

ROTHSCHILD, Lord (Victor Rothschild) (1910–90). Director-General of the Central Policy Review Staff (‘Think Tank’), 1970–4. Scientist and Chairman of Shell Research Ltd, 1963–70. Member of the Central Advisory Committee for Science and Technology, 1969.