David Ennals, Baron Ennals
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The Right Honourable The Lord Ennals PC |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Services | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 14 June 1979 |
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| Leader | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Orme |
| Secretary of State for Social Services | |
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In office 8 April 1976 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Barbara Castle |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 7 March 1974 – 8 April 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Ted Rowlands |
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Member of Parliament for Norwich North |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | George Wallace |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Thompson |
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Member of Parliament for Dover |
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In office 15 October 1964 – 18 June 1970 |
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| Preceded by | John Arbuthnot |
| Succeeded by | Peter Rees |
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19 August 1922 Walsall, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 17 June 1995 (aged 72) Belsize Park, London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor Maud Caddick (1950–1977) Gene Tranoy (1977-1995) |
David Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals PC (19 August 1922 – 17 June 1995) was a British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights. He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979.
Born in 1922 in Walsall, Staffordshire to Arthur Ford Ennals and his wife Jessie Edith Taylor, Ennals was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall and the Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut on a one-year student exchange scholarship. In 1939 he was a reporter on the Walsall Observer and during World War II he served in the Royal Armoured Corps from 1941 to 1945. Commissioned into Reconnaissance Corps in 1942 and posted to 3rd Reconnaissance Corps. He served in North Africa, Italy and the Rhine Crossing. He failed to return from a night patrol during the Normandy campaign in June 1944 and spent several months as a prisoner of war. He was invalided out with the rank of Lieutenant.
Ennals stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Richmond (Surrey) in the 1950 general election and again in 1951. He later joined the Labour Party and served as secretary to the international department at the Labour Party's head office.
In 1964 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Dover. Following the 1966 election, Harold Wilson appointed Ennals as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Army. He moved to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1967 under James Callaghan before being appointed as a Minister of State for Social Services in 1968. He lost his government post and his seat following Labour's defeat in the 1970 general election. However, in Wilson's Resignation Honours, he was sworn of the Privy Council.
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