Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.

In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.

It was founded by four senior Labour Party ' moderates ', dubbed the ' Gang of Four ': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

The founding members or ' Gang of Four ' were Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all leading figures within the Labour Party, and all ' moderates '.

In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC ( 11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003 ) was a British politician.

The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II.

Roy Jenkins died in 2003, aged 82.

Born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, in south-eastern Wales, as an only child, Roy Jenkins was the son of a National Union of Mineworkers official, Arthur Jenkins.

Roy Jenkins is often seen as responsible for the most wide-ranging social reforms of the late 1960s, with popular historian Andrew Marr claiming ' the greatest changes of the Labour years ' were thanks to Jenkins.

This led to some former admirers, including Roy Hattersley, choosing to distance themselves from Jenkins.

Roy Jenkins is fondly remembered by Private Eye as having a passion for claret and a distinct inability to pronounce his ' r's.

This was clearly shown in their obituary cartoon with the caption: Roy Jenkins, 1920 – 2003.

Referring to the same, one of the entries in Douglas Adams & John Lloyd's The Meaning of Liff reads " WATH ( n .): The rage of Roy Jenkins.

Cardiff University honours the memory of Roy Jenkins by naming one of their halls of residence ' Roy Jenkins Hall ' in his memory.

Books by Roy Jenkins:

According to Roy Gutman, after the failed counter-coup, this " opened a profound and long-lasting schism " among the Islamist and Islamic movement.

The following year, Dalglish failed in an attempt to sign Roy Keane.

The Giants failed to beat Roy Halladay, losing 4 – 2, forcing a return trip to Philadelphia.

He is the only England manager, other than the short-lived Terry Venables, and current head coach Roy Hodgson, who has never failed to guide England to the last eight in a major tournament.

The business failed to financially sustain itself after the death of then 47 year old Roy Wells who suffered a fatal heart attack in August 2006 shortly before the birth of his first granddaughter.

" Blood and Tears " is a Roy Orbison-like ballad about “ a girl's failed relationship and her subsequent torment ”, and is one of Glenn Danzig's personal favorites from the album.

Studebaker's strong post-war management team including president Paul G Hoffman and Roy Cole ( vice-president, engineering ) had gone by 1949 and was replaced by more cautious executives who failed to meet the competitive challenge brought on by Henry Ford II and his Whiz Kids.

Reminiscent of his blow-up back in college when he failed to qualify for the Tour, Roy tries to hit the same shot repeatedly, with the same heart-breaking result.

While Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders failed to crack the charts, the band's lineup during this period included a young lead guitarist and composer named Roy Wood, whose first commercial song " Make Them Understand ," appeared on one of the band's B-sides in 1965.

Roy Rogers ' logo after Hardee's conversion back. The restaurants promoted new flame broiled hamburgers, but they were not the same as the original Roy Rogers products and they later failed.

As the seven-hour play progresses, Prior is visited by ghosts and an angel who proclaim him to be a prophet ; Joe finds himself struggling to reconcile his religion with his sexuality ; Louis struggles with his guilt about leaving Prior and begins a relationship with Joe ; Harper's mental health deteriorates as she realizes that Joe is gay ; Joe's mother, Hannah, moves to New York to attempt to look after Harper and meets Prior after a failed attempt by Prior to confront Hannah's son ; Harper begins to separate from Joe whom she has depended upon and finds strength she was unaware of ; and Roy finds himself in the hospital, reduced to the companionship of the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg and his nurse, Belize, a former drag queen and Prior's best friend, who meanwhile has to deal with Louis's constant demands for updates on Prior's health.

Robin Carnahan's bid to follow her mother as a United States Senator failed, however, when she was defeated by Republican U. S. Representative Roy Blunt in the 2010 election to succeed Missouri's senior Senator, Republican Kit Bond.

City failed to win promotion for three successive seasons, until the board appointed former England centre back Roy McFarland as manager in May 1981.

Judge Roy Hofheinz was a driving force behind the effort to obtain the Major League Baseball franchise for Houston, along with oilman Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. who had been involved with the failed attempted " Continental League " and who was chairman of the Houston Sports Association executive committee, a syndicate of local businessmen dedicated to bringing a pro baseball team to southeastern Texas.

Meanwhile, Dot's relationship with Iris has failed, and Iris leaves her for Agent Roy Smith, who is investigating the murders of Mrs. Capon and Whitey.

Roy Hobbs – “ The Natural ”, a once failed teenage pitching phenomenon, the story is about Hobbs's quest to be remembered as one of the greatest ballplayers of all time.

After several failed attempts to push a bill through Parliament, a committee finally succeeded in creating a viable bill, which was introduced to Parliament by Roy Jenkins and given the Royal Assent on 29 July 1959, coming into force on 29 August 1959 as the Obscene Publications Act 1959.

She also failed to capture the Invercargill electorate from incumbent Eric Roy ( National Party ) by over 6, 000 votes.

The opposition to their resettlement in the UK gave the better-known NF a boost and meant that the NIP failed to gain any momentumalthough they famously beat former Tory candidate turned National Front candidate Roy Painter in Tottenham at the February 1974 General Election ( despite his campaign enjoying a campaign-diary spot during the election with The Guardian ) and struggled on until 1976, when it was closed down.

In week five, with starting wide receiver Roy Williams sidelined by injury, receiver Miles Austin got his first start of the season and had a record setting day ( 250 yards receiving and 2 TDs ) to help lead Dallas to an overtime win over Kansas City.

The Astros lost the first game in St. Louis, but would win the next three games, with Roy Oswalt getting the win.

Souness was replaced by Roy Evans, and Liverpool went on to win the 1995 Football League Cup Final.

This made him one of five pitchers to win the award in both leagues, joining Gaylord Perry, Pedro Martínez, and Randy Johnson and later joined by Roy Halladay.

Dole would win re-election in 1974 by only a few thousand votes, having in the end graphically painted Roy as pro-abortion.

* 24 hours of Le Mans – Carroll Shelby / Roy Salvadori win, sharing an Aston Martin DBR1

Six players have managed to win both the Jennings and Vezina Trophy for the same season: Patrick Roy ( and ), Ed Belfour ( and ), Dominik Hasek ( and ), Martin Brodeur (, ), Miikka Kiprusoff () and Tim Thomas ().

While Pittsburgh goaltender Roy Worters stopped 26 of 27 shots to record the first NHL win in franchise and city history.

They found success quickly with a Scottish Junior Cup win in 1937-defeating Kirkintilloch Rob Roy 5 – 1 in the final.

Wilson's co-stars in this TV series were the actors Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Alberta Watson and Eugene Robert Glazer, and for her acting in La Femme Nikita, Wilson was nominated twice for the annual Gemini Award for " Best Performance by An Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role ", though she did not win.

Roy played for 20 minutes and earned his first NHL win without allowing a goal.

* October 21-The Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a majority, defeating Grant Devine's PCs

* June 21-Saskatchewan election: Roy Romanow's NDP win a second consecutive majority

In the 1978 by-election in Rangitikei, caused by the death of National Party MP Roy Jack, Beetham managed to defeat National's replacement candidate and win the seat.

Striker Roy Essandoh headed an injury-time winner to seal a 2 – 1 win at Filbert Street.

Rosewall won the tournament, his second consecutive Grand Slam win, without losing a single set and defeated Roy Emerson and Okker before beating Ashe in the final 6 – 1, 7 – 5, 6 – 3.

Cole then scored the title sealing goal in a landmark 3 – 1 win for United at Anfield – the scene of his broken legs just half a season earlier – against Roy Evans ' " Spice Boys " Liverpool team and thereby aiding United in winning their fourth title in five years, with Cole winning another Premier League title medal.

Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Arvind Adiga have won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, with Salman Rushdie going on to win the Booker of Bookers.

Going into the season the two favorites were the Ottawa Senators in the east, who had won the Presidents ' Trophy and come within a win of the Stanley Cup finals the year before ; and the Colorado Avalanche in the west, who despite losing legendary goaltender Patrick Roy to retirement, added both Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya to an already star-studded lineup.

On one turnover, Jim Marshall recovered a fumble and, as he was being tackled, lateraled the ball to Roy Winston who raced into the end zone as the Vikings went on to win 27-10.

Although he was the favourite to win he narrowly lost to Roy Beggs by 367 votes.

Faubus then defeated the Republican Roy Mitchell to win a second consecutive two-year term as governor.

Niall Quinn pointed out in his autobiography that McMahon reminded him of Roy Keane in his intensity and will to win: " Because he expected to win trophies, he could make the players at City feel bad about themselves, because we didn't have the same expectations ...