Alan Kenneth MacKenzie Clark MP (1928 - 1999)

Born 13 Apr 1928 in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom

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Died 5 Sep 1999 at age 71 in Saltwood, Kent, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Alan Clark MP is Notable.

Alan was born in Paddington, London 1928. He was the son of art historian Kenneth Clark and Jane Martin from Ireland.

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991.

He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which inspired the musical satire Oh, What a Lovely War!

Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit, irreverence and keen support of animal rights. Norman Lamont called him "the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times".^[1] Clark is particularly remembered for his three-volume Alan Clark Diaries, which contains a candid account of political life under Thatcher and a moving description of the weeks preceding his death, when he continued to write until he could no longer focus on the page.^[2]

He served as Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton from 1974-1992 (taking what was previously David Owen's seat from Labour) and for Kensington and Chelsea from 1997 until his death.

In 1953 his father purchased Saltwood Castle in Kent from the Deedes family. This became the family home.

In 1958, Clark, aged 30, married (Living Beuttler). They were married for 41 years and had two sons:

• James Alasdair Kenneth Clark (born 1960, died 15 August 2019)
• (Living Clark) (born 1960s)

His mother passed away in 1976 and his father remarried. His father passed away in 1983.

Alan passed away in 1999^[3] and is buried in the private grounds of Saltwood Castle.

Find A Grave: Memorial #176948955

Sources

1. ↑ "Thatcher leads Clark tributes" BBC News. London. 7 September 1999. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2009.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clark
3. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZX-FSHW : 4 September 2014), Alan Kenneth M Clark, Sep 1999; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death Registration, Ashford With Shepway, Kent, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

• Clark, Alan "Alan Clark: The Diaries 1972-1999" (Orion 2010) ISBN 0753826739

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q2894842, en:Wikipedia