Personal Life
John Denham has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Fabian Society for several years, participating in many events and co-authoring a pamphlet on pensions as well as making several speeches and publishing articles in this forum.
He was seen as a government loyalist and Southampton University Students' Union had revoked his lifetime membership for his support of tuition fees. He married Ruth Eleanor Dixon and they have a son, Edward, and a daughter, Rosie (now a Labour councillor in Exeter); they have now divorced. He has another child, born in 2005. He is a keen follower of cricket, and was a strong athlete in his youth. He is also a Saints fan, watching them whenever possible.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Denham announced he was a secular humanist, although he also said he learnt a lot from his Church of England upbringing.
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