Education
Roland Moyle was educated in Bexleyheath and Llanidloes, and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he chaired the Labour Club in 1953.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Roland Moyle was educated in Bexleyheath and Llanidloes, and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he chaired the Labour Club in 1953.
He became a barrister, called to the bar by Gray"s Inn in 1954. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Greenwich from 1964 and was president of Greenwich Labour Party. After a spell as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, he was Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1976, and Minister of Health from 1976 to 1979.
Privy counsellor 1978.
In Labour"s landslide general election defeat of 1983, Moyle lost his seat to the Conservative Colin Moynihan. Moyle then became deputy chairman police complaints authority 1985 to 1991.
44th United Kingdom Parliament. 45th United Kingdom Parliament. 46th United Kingdom Parliament.
47th United Kingdom Parliament.
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Moyle"s father, Arthur Moyle, became a Labour Member of Parliament and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee. Moyle was elected Member of Parliament for Lewisham North in 1966, and after boundary changes, for Lewisham East in 1974.