Bryan Charles Gould CNZM (born 11 February 1939) is a New Zealand-born British former politician and diplomat.

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

[3] Having fought the seat unsuccessfully in February 1974, Gould was elected Labour MP for Southampton Test in October 1974 and held it until 1979.

John Smith won the leadership contest,[7] but 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.

[9] In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gould was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to tertiary education.