Bryan Gould: Difference between revisions

| office4 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Dagenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Dagenham]]

| predecessor4 = [[John Parker (BritishLabour politician)|John Parker]]

| office5 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency)|Southampton Test]]

| term_end5 = 37 MayApril 1979

| birth_place = [[HaweraHāwera]], New Zealand

| nationality = [[United Kingdom|Britain]] : <br>[[New Zealand]]

| relations = [[George Gould (businessman)|George Gould]] (grandfather)<br /> [[Wayne Gould]] (brother)

'''Bryan Charles Gould''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CNZM}} (born 11 February 1939) is a [[UnitedNew Kingdom|BritishZealand]]-born British former [[politician]] and diplomat. He served as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]'s [[Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|Shadow Cabinet]] from 1986 to 1992, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.<ref name="McSmith1997">{{cite book|last=McSmith|first=Andy|title=Faces of Labour: the inside story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOog9rvZDvUC&pg=PA15|accessdate=17 May 2011|year=1997|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-85984-093-1|pages=15–|via=Google Books}}</ref>

Gould was born in [[HaweraHāwera]], New Zealand, on 11 February 1939, the son of Charles Terence Gould and Elsie Gladys May Gould (née Driller).<ref name="Whos who">{{cite bookjournal |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Alister |editorlinkeditor-link=Alister Taylor |title=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001 |journal=New Zealand Who's Who, Aotearoa |year=2001 |publisher=Alister Taylor Publishers |location=Auckland |issn=1172-9813 |page=382}}</ref> He was educated at [[Tauranga College]] from 1951 to 1953, and then Dannevirke High School between 1954 and 1955.<ref name="Whos who"/> He went on to study at [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University College]] from 1956 to 1958, and [[University of Auckland|Auckland University College]] from 1959 to 1962, graduating [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]] in 1961, and [[Master of Laws|LLM]] with first-class honours two years later.<ref name="Whos who"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university10.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: G |website=Shadows of Time |accessdateaccess-date=27 July 2019}}</ref> He was a New Zealand [[Rhodes Scholar]] to [[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 (lawlegal professorscholar)|Francis Reynolds]].

Gould's brother is [[Wayne Gould]], best known for popularising [[Sudoku]]. They are descendants of [[George Gould (businessman)|George Gould]], a former chairman of the [[New Zealand Shipping Company]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Barbadoes/BarbadoesStreetCemetery.pdf |title=Barbadoes Street Cemetery Tour |last=Greenaway |first=Richard LN |date=June 2007 |publisher=Christchurch City Council|page=4 |accessdateaccess-date=15 April 2013}}</ref> In 1967, Bryan Gould married Gillian Anne Harrigan, and the couple went on to have two children.<ref name="Whos who"/>

Gould was a member of [[Shadow Cabinet of Neil Kinnock|Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet]], serving first as [[Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury]], then as spokesman on Trade and Industry, the Environment,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/15/world/laborites-to-wait-until-july-to-pick-leader.html|title=Laborites to Wait Until July to Pick Leader|last=Whitney|first=Craig R.|date=15 April 1992|work=The New York Times|page=7|accessdateaccess-date=17 May 2011}}</ref> and later on Heritage. In 1992 he founded the Full Employment Forum. Later that year he was defeated in the [[1992 Labour Party (UK) leadership election|leadership election]] to succeed Kinnock after the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|general election]], which Labour had lost to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] for the fourth election in succession. [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]] won the leadership contest,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/13/newsid_2830000/2830895.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns | date=13 April 1992}}</ref> but Gould resigned from [[Shadow Cabinet of John Smith|Smith's Shadow Cabinet]] on 27 September 1992 when the Shadow Cabinet rejected a referendum on the [[Maastricht Treaty]] and in protest against Labour's support for the [[European Exchange Rate Mechanism]].<ref>Philip Webster, ‘Gould'Gould quits over Labour EC policy’policy', ''The Times'' (28 September 1992), p. 1.</ref> He resigned his parliamentary seat in May 1994 when he was about to return to New Zealand.

In July 1994, Gould 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 (rowing)|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Great Race - The Trophies|url=http://www.thegreatrace.co.nz/the-great-race/the-trophies|work=The Great Race |accessdateaccess-date=31 December 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208084104/http://www.thegreatrace.co.nz/the-great-race/the-trophies|archivedatearchive-date=8 February 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In the [[2005 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|2005 Queen's Birthday Honours]], Gould was appointed a [[Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit]], for services to tertiary education.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2005 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2005 |date=6 June 2005 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdateaccess-date=27 July 2019}}</ref> In October 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato.<ref name=WaikatoCalendarLink>{{cite web | url=http://calendar.waikato.ac.nz/officershonoursstaff/doctors.html | title=Honorary Doctors of the University of Waikato | publisher=[[University of Waikato]] | accessdateaccess-date=27 July 2019 | archive-date=6 April 2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010406115418/http://calendar.waikato.ac.nz/officershonoursstaff/doctors.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a board member of [[TVNZ]].

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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2000/labour_centenary/651259.stm Gould on 100th anniversary of Labour Party], [[BBC]]]

| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency)|Southampton Test]]

| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Dagenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Dagenham]]

| before = [[John Parker (BritishLabour politician)|John Parker]]

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