Background
GOULD, Bryan Charles was born on February 11, 1939. Parents: Charles Gould and Elsie Gould.
GOULD, Bryan Charles was born on February 11, 1939. Parents: Charles Gould and Elsie Gould.
New Zealand, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Laws. Balliol College. Oxford, Master of Arts, BCL. Spoken languages: French.
Gould currently holds a number of positions and in 2004 was made a director at Television New Zealand. Gould was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1962. After completing a degree in Law with first-class honours, he joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1964. He then returned to Oxford as a tutorial Fellow in Law at Worcester College alongside Francis Reynolds.
Gould became Labour Member of Parliament for Southampton Test in October 1974 and held the seat until 1979.
He worked as a television journalist from 1979 to 1983, and was then elected as Member of Parliament for Dagenham from 1983, holding the seat until he resigned on 17 May 1994. In 1992 he founded the Full Employment Forum.
Later that year he was defeated in the leadership election to succeed Kinnock after the general election, which Labour lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession. In July 1994 he returned to New Zealand and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato, serving until his retirement in 2004.
In this position Gould was instrumental in initiating The Great Race, a rowing race for Waikato University against international universities on the Waikato River.
The Bryan Gould Cup for the women"s eights race is named after him. In October 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato. Bryan Gould"s brother is Wayne Gould, best known for popularising Sudoku.
They are descendants of George Gould, a former chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company.
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Anglican
47th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.
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He served as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994.
He was a member of the Labour Party"s Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1994, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992. Gould was a member of Neil Kinnock"s Shadow Cabinet, serving first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, then as spokesman on Trade and Industry, the Environment, and later on Heritage.
He is a board member of Television New Zealand.
Spouse Gillian Anne Gould (née Harrigan), 1967. Children: two.