David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere

David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere, in the County of Cumbria PC DL (* October 19, 1939 in Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland ) is a British Labour Party politician, who, among other things 1997-1998 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was.

Life

Lower house deputy

After visiting the Elementary School Bowness and Windermere Grammar School Clark first worked as a forest worker and then as a laboratory assistant before he studied 1960-1965 Economics at the Victoria University of Manchester. After he had acquired there a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) and a Master of Science ( M.Sc.), he was between 1965 and 1970 Lecturer for State and Public Administration at the University of Salford and 1967-1970 Tutor at the Victoria University of Manchester.

Clark ran unsuccessfully in the 1966 general election for the first time as a candidate of the Labour Party for the House of Commons in the constituency of Manchester Withington. In the general election of June 18, 1970, he was elected in the constituency of Colne Valley as a member of the lower house and this was one of up to 28 February 1974. In the general election of February 28, 1974 subject to the candidate of the Liberal Party, Richard Wainwright, he himself had defeated four years earlier. During his membership of Parliament, he was 1972-1974 Spokesman of the opposition Labour group on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

In the general election of May 3, 1979, he was again elected to the House of Commons and represented there until 2001, the constituency of South Shields. He was also 1980-1997 and again from 1998 to 2005 member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. During this time he was in the House first 1980-1981 opposition spokesman on defense policy, then for the Environment, between 1987 and 1992 for Food, Agriculture and Rural matter and last from 1992 to 1997 for defense, disarmament and arms control.

Member of the Upper House

After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of 1 May 1997 he was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and held that office until July 1998.

After retiring from the House of Commons he was on 2 July 2001 for Life peer with the title Baron Clark of Windermere, of Windermere in the County of Cumbria raised to the peerage, 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 director of the football club Carlisle United and chairman of the Partnership for the Lake District National Park, was established in 2006 Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria.

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