Robert Jenkins (British politician) (original) (raw)

Robert Christmas Dewar Jenkins (29 September 1900 – 25 June 1978) was a British Conservative Party politician, and a Member of Parliament for 13 years. The son of J Hamilton Jenkins, he was educated at Latymer Upper School. During the First World War he served in the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps and the King's Royal Rifle Corps. At the 1950 general election, Jenkins stood as the Conservative candidate in the Dulwich constituency in South London, but lost by 1300 votes to the sitting Labour Party MP Wilfrid Vernon.