David Owen
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The Right Honourable The Lord Owen CH PC FRCP |
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| Leader of the 'continuing' Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 3 March 1988 – 6 June 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 21 June 1983 – 6 August 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Jenkins |
| Succeeded by | Bob Maclennan |
| Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office October 1982 – 21 June 1983 |
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| Leader | Roy Jenkins |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy | |
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In office 14 July 1979 – 4 November 1980 |
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| Leader | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Tom King |
| Succeeded by | Merlyn Rees |
| Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 14 July 1979 |
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| Leader | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Francis Pym |
| Succeeded by | Peter Shore |
| Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 21 February 1977 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Anthony Crosland |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Carrington |
| Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 10 September 1976 – 21 February 1977 |
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| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Roy Hattersley |
| Succeeded by | Frank Judd |
| Minister of State for Health and Social Security | |
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In office 26 July 1974 – 10 September 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | ??? |
| Succeeded by | Roland Moyle |
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Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Joan Vickers |
| Succeeded by | David Jamieson |
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Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton |
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In office 31 March 1966 – 28 February 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Ian Fraser |
| Succeeded by | Alan Clark |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 July 1938 Plympton, England |
| Political party |
Labour (Before 1981) Social Democratic (1981–1990) Independent (1990–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
SDP–Liberal Alliance (1981–1988) |
| Spouse(s) | Deborah Schabert |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge King's College London |
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC, FRCP (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician and physician.
Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat".
In the course of his career, Owen has held, and resigned from, a number of senior posts. He first quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader Harold Wilson's attitude to the EEC; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader. He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected one member, one vote in February 1981 and later as Leader of the Social Democratic Party, which he had helped to found, after the party's rank-and-file membership voted to merge with the Liberal Party.
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