Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, PC (7 September 1926 – 20 December 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government.

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The Right Honourable The Lord Jenkin of Roding PC
Patrick Jenkin
Secretary of State for the Environment
In office 12 June 1983 – 2 September 1985
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Tom King
Succeeded by	Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Industry
In office 14 September 1981 – 12 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Keith Joseph
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson[nb]
Secretary of State for Health and Social Services
In office 4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	David Ennals
Succeeded by	Norman Fowler
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 7 April 1972 – 8 January 1974
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Maurice Macmillan
Succeeded by	Tom Boardman
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 19 June 1970 – 7 April 1972
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Dick Taverne
Succeeded by	Terence Higgins
Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford
In office 15 October 1964 – 18 May 1987
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	James Arbuthnot
Shadow cabinet positions Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Services In office 19 November 1976 – 4 May 1979 Leader Margaret Thatcher Preceded by Norman Fowler Succeeded by Stan Orme Shadow Secretary of State for Energy In office 18 February 1975 – 19 November 1976 Leader Margaret Thatcher Succeeded by John Biffen
Personal details
Born	Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin (1926-09-07)7 September 1926[1] Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	20 December 2016(2016-12-20) (aged 90) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Monica Graham (m. 1950, d. 2022)[2]
Children	4, including Bernard
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge Middle Temple, Inns of Court
n.b. ^ As Sec. of State for Trade and Industry.

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Jenkin was born in September 1926 and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Clifton College in Bristol and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1952, and company director. He was a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council from 1960 to 1963.

The following year, Jenkin became the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford. From 1965, he served as an Opposition spokesman on economic and trade affairs. He was a member of the Bow Group from 1951.^[3] In January 1974, he became Minister for Energy just weeks before the Conservatives fell from office, and participated in many ways in the government of Margaret Thatcher. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1979 to 1981, then as Secretary of State for Industry until 1983, and finally as Secretary of State for the Environment from 1983 to 1985.

Jenkin retired from the Commons at the 1987 general election. He was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkin of Roding, of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London.^[4][5] Whilst in the Lords, Jenkin was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.^[6] He was noted for his contribution to the debate during the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.^[7] On 6 January 2015 he retired from the House of Lords pursuant to section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.^[8] He died on 20 December 2016, aged 90.^[9][10]

Jenkin was president of the Foundation for Science and Technology, and a vice-president of the Local Government Association.^[3]

Lord Jenkin's grandfather, Frewen, was the first Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 1908 in the newly created Department of Engineering Science, and the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford. Lord Jenkin's great-grandfather was the engineer Fleeming Jenkin.

In 1954, he married (Alison) Monica Graham (1928–2022). They had two sons and two daughters. Their younger son, Bernard, is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Harwich and North Essex.