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Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier..

John Denham (politician)

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British Labour politician

John Yorke DenhamFRSA[2] (born 15 July 1953) is an English politician who served as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.

A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen from 1992 to 2015.[1]

Denham served in government under Prime MinisterTony Blair from 1997 to 2003, as a Parliamentary under-secretary of state from 1997 to 1998 and a Minister of State from 1998 to 2003.

Denham was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in August 1888, and was educated both there and in Melbourne.

  • Denham was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in August 1888, and was educated both there and in Melbourne.
  • Professor, Labour MP ('92-'15) and minister, Centre for English Identity and Politics, and Southern Policy Centre.
  • Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier.
  • Denham, Sir John (1615–69), poet and architect, was born in Dublin, the only son of Sir John Denham (qv), lord chief justice of Ireland 1612–17.
  • At the beginning of the civil wars Denham was high sheriff of Surrey, and took up arms for the king.

    • He resigned from government over the Iraq War in 2003, and subsequently became Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Denham returned to government in 2007 as a Member of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet, which he served in until Labour's election defeat in 2010.

    He was briefly Shadow Secretary of State