Bryan Gould Explained

Bryan Gould
Honorific-Suffix:CNZM
Office:Shadow Secretary of State for National Heritage
Term Start:18 July 1992
Term End:29 September 1992
Leader:John Smith
Predecessor:Office Created
Successor:Ann Clwyd
Office1:Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment
Term Start1:2 November 1989
Term End1:18 July 1992
Leader1:Neil Kinnock
Predecessor1:Jack Cunningham
Successor1:Chris Smith
Office2:Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
Term Start2:13 July 1987
Term End2:2 November 1989
Leader2:Neil Kinnock
Predecessor2:John Smith
Successor2:Gordon Brown
Office3:Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Term Start3:30 October 1986
Term End3:13 July 1987
Leader3:Neil Kinnock
Successor3:Gordon Brown
Office4:Member of Parliament
for Dagenham
Term Start4:9 June 1983
Term End4:17 May 1994
Predecessor4:John Parker
Successor4:Judith Church
Office5:Member of Parliament
for Southampton Test
Term Start5:10 October 1974
Term End5:7 April 1979
Predecessor5:James Hill
Successor5:James Hill
Birth Name:Bryan Charles Gould
Birth Date:11 February 1939
Birth Place:Hāwera, New Zealand
Nationality:Britain
New Zealand
Party:Labour
Alma Mater:Balliol College, Oxford
Relations:George Gould (grandfather)
Wayne Gould (brother)

Bryan Charles Gould (born 11 February 1939) is a New Zealand-born British former politician and diplomat. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1992, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.[1]

Gould returned to New Zealand and in 2004 was made a director at TVNZ.[2]

Early life and family

Gould was born in Hāwera, New Zealand, on 11 February 1939, the son of Charles Terence Gould and Elsie Gladys May Gould (née Driller).[3] He was educated at Tauranga College from 1951 to 1953, and then Dannevirke High School between 1954 and 1955.[3] He went on to study at Victoria University College from 1956 to 1958, and Auckland University College from 1959 to 1962, graduating BA LLB in 1961, and LLM with first-class honours two years later.[3] [4] 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.

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.[5] In 1967, Bryan Gould married Gillian Anne Harrigan, and the couple went on to have two children.[3]

Parliamentary career

Having fought the seat unsuccessfully in February 1974, Gould was elected Labour MP for Southampton Test in October 1974 and held it until 1979. He worked as a television journalist from 1979 to 1983, and was then elected as MP for Dagenham from 1983, holding the seat until he resigned on 17 May 1994.

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,[6] and later on Heritage. 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 had lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession. John Smith won the leadership contest,[7] but Gould resigned from 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.[8] He resigned his parliamentary seat in May 1994 when he was about to return to New Zealand.

After Parliament

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, 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.[9]

In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gould was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to tertiary education.[10] In October 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato.[11] He is a board member of TVNZ.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: McSmith, Andy. Faces of Labour: the inside story. 1997. Verso. 978-1-85984-093-1. 15–. Google Books.
  2. http://www.bryangould.com/about-bryan-gould/ About Bryan Gould
  3. Taylor . Alister . Alister Taylor . New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001 . New Zealand Who's Who, Aotearoa . 2001 . Alister Taylor Publishers . Auckland . 1172-9813 . 382.
  4. Web site: NZ university graduates 1870–1961: G . Shadows of Time . 27 July 2019.
  5. Web site: Barbadoes Street Cemetery Tour . Greenaway . Richard LN . June 2007 . Christchurch City Council. 4 . 15 April 2013.
  6. News: Laborites to Wait Until July to Pick Leader. Whitney. Craig R.. 15 April 1992. The New York Times. 7. 17 May 2011.
  7. News: 1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns . BBC News . 13 April 1992.
  8. Philip Webster, 'Gould quits over Labour EC policy', The Times (28 September 1992), p. 1.
  9. Web site: Great Race - The Trophies. The Great Race . 31 December 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130208084104/http://www.thegreatrace.co.nz/the-great-race/the-trophies. 8 February 2013.
  10. Web site: Queen's Birthday honours list 2005 . 6 June 2005 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 27 July 2019.
  11. Web site: Honorary Doctors of the University of Waikato . . 27 July 2019 . 6 April 2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20010406115418/http://calendar.waikato.ac.nz/officershonoursstaff/doctors.html . dead .