Derek Enright

Derek Enright MP

Member of Parliament for Hemsworth
In office 7 November 1991 – 31 October 1995
Preceded by	George Buckley
Succeeded by	Jon Trickett
Member of the European Parliament for the Leeds
In office 10 June 1979 – 17 June 1984
Succeeded by	Michael McGowan
Personal details
Born	2 August 1935 Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	31 October 1995 (aged 60)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Jane Simmons; 4 children
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Religion	Roman Catholic

Derek Anthony Enright (2 August 1935 – 31 October 1995) was a Labour politician in the United Kingdom.

Born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, he attended St. Michael's College on St John's Road, Leeds (which has since merged with Mount St Mary's Catholic High School), then a grammar school. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, gaining a BA in Classics and a DipEd, and worked as a school teacher of classics at The John Fisher School, a Roman Catholic grammar school in Purley, London from 1959-1967. Taught at St Wilfred's Catholic High School in the 70s, where he taught students to sing 'Yellow Submarine' and 'Ten Green Bottles' in Latin. He also played a convincing Pharoe in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

He was elected as a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Leeds in 1979, staying until 1984. He was British Labour group spokesman on third world affairs and women's rights, and was later an EC delegate in Guinea Bissau. He contested Kent East in the 1984 European election. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemsworth, West Yorkshire from 1991 until his death in 1995.