David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere
David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL (born October 19, 1939 in Castle Douglas , Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland ) is a British Labor Party politician who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1997 to 1998 .
Life
Member of the House of Commons
After attending Bowness Elementary School and Windermere Grammar School, Clark first worked as a forest worker and then as a laboratory assistant before studying economics at Victoria University of Manchester between 1960 and 1965 . After earning a Bachelor of Arts (BA in Economics) and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) there, he was a lecturer in State and Administration at the University of Salford from 1965 to 1970 and a tutor at Victoria from 1967 to 1970 University of Manchester.
Clark ran unsuccessfully in the 1966 general election as a Labor candidate for the House of Commons in Manchester Withington constituency . In the general election of June 18, 1970 , he was elected in the Colne Valley constituency as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to this until February 28, 1974. In the general election of February 28, 1974, the Liberal Party candidate , Richard Wainwright , whom he had defeated four years earlier, was defeated. During his membership in parliament he was spokesman for the opposition Labor Group on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food between 1972 and 1974 .
In the general election of May 3, 1979 , he was re-elected to the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of South Shields until 2001 . At the same time he was a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly between 1980 and 1997 and again from 1998 to 2005 . During this time he was the opposition spokesman for defense policy in the House of Commons from 1980 to 1981, then for the environment, between 1987 and 1992 for food, agriculture and rural affairs and finally from 1992 to 1997 for defense, disarmament and arms control.
Member of the House of Lords
After the Labor Party won the general election on May 1, 1997 , Prime Minister Tony Blair made him Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and held that post until July 1998.
After retiring from the House, he was on 2 July 2001 for life peer with the title Baron Clark of Windermere , of Windermere in the Cumbria in the peerage collected and has since been the House of Lords on. Between 2001 and 2005 he was Head of the UK Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly .
Baron Clark, who is also the director of Carlisle United Football Club and chairman of the Lake District National Park Partnership , became Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria in 2006 .
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed December 18, 2011)
- David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere at the Hansard (English)
- Entry in They Work For You
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| SURNAME | Clark, David, Baron Clark of Windermere |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clark, David George, Baron Clark of Windermere (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castle Douglas , Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland |