British Conservative MP, author and diarist, the elder son of art historian Kenneth Clark (later Lord Clark, the author of the 1969 BBC television series Civilisation), and Elizabeth Winifred Martin.
Clark was a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire Oh, What a Lovely War!
Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit and irreverence, and especially for his 3-volume diary of his time in Thatcher's government.
Clark was a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire Oh, What a Lovely War!
Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit and irreverence, and especially for his 3-volume diary of his time in Thatcher's government.
British Conservative MP, author and diarist, the elder son of art historian Kenneth Clark (later Lord Clark, the author of the 1969 BBC television series Civilisation), and Elizabeth Winifred Martin.
Clark was a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire Oh, What a Lovely War!
Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit and irreverence, and especially for his 3-volume diary of his time in Thatcher's government.
Clark was a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire Oh, What a Lovely War!
Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit and irreverence, and especially for his 3-volume diary of his time in Thatcher's government.
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