14 Facts About Bryan Gould

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

Bryan Gould served as a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994.

Bryan Gould 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.

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

Bryan Gould 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.

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

Bryan Gould then returned to Oxford as a tutorial Fellow in Law at Worcester College alongside Francis Reynolds.

Bryan Gould's brother is Wayne Bryan Gould, best known for popularising Sudoku.

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

Bryan Gould 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.

Bryan 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.

John Smith won the leadership contest, but Bryan 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.

Bryan Gould resigned his parliamentary seat in May 1994 when he was about to return to New Zealand.

In July 1994, Bryan Gould returned to New Zealand and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato, serving until his retirement in 2004.