Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (B: 1920) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his own death in 2003. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins was from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.
Introduction I A Determined Preparation II A Greater Britain III Member for
Chelsea IV An English Republican V The Birmingham Alliance VI The Dust
without the Palm VII A Laborious Promotion VIII A Radical amongst the Whigs
IX A Dying Government X Mr. Gladstone's Successor XI Mrs. Crawford
Intervenes XII An Inconclusive Verdict XIII The Case for Dilke XIV The Case
for Mrs. Crawford - and the Verdict XV The New Evidence XVI What was the
Truth? XVII The Long Road Back XVIII An Independent Expert XIX A Quiet End
Appendix I List of Characters concerned with the case Appendix II List of
addresses in the Case References
