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Bryan Gould (Bryan Charles Gould) was born on 11 February, 1939 in Hāwera, New Zealand, is a British politician and diplomat (born 1939). Discover Bryan Gould's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Bryan Charles Gould
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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 11 February 1939
Birthday 11 February
Birthplace Hāwera, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1939

Bryan Charles Gould (born 11 February 1939) is a New Zealand-born British former politician and diplomat.

Gould was born in Hāwera, New Zealand, on 11 February 1939, the son of Charles Terence Gould and Elsie Gladys May Gould (née Driller).

1951

He was educated at Tauranga College from 1951 to 1953, and then Dannevirke High School between 1954 and 1955.

1956

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.

1962

He was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar to Balliol College, Oxford, from 1962.

1964

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.

1967

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

1974

He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994.

Having fought the seat unsuccessfully in February 1974, Gould was elected Labour MP for Southampton Test in October 1974 and held it until 1979.

1986

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.

1992

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, 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.

1994

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, and later on Heritage.

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, 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.

2004

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

2005

In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gould was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to tertiary education.

2006

In October 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato.

He is a board member of TVNZ.