Alan Clark

Alan Clark   (politician)
Born	Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark 13 April 1928 London
Died	1999-09-05 (Age 71) Saltwood Castle, Kent
Religion	Anglican
Member of	Bullingdon Club, Le Cercle
Party	Conservative
Minister for Defence Procurement In office 25 July 1989– 14 April 1992 - 14 April 1992 Preceded by Jonathan Aitken, Alan Clark, Quentin Davies, Philip Dunne, John Gilbert, Ian Gilmour, Norman Lamont, David Trefgarne, Thomas Trenchard"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. Succeeded by Jonathan Aitken  Minister of State for Trade In office 24 January 1986– 24 July 1989 - 24 July 1989 Preceded by Roy Mason, Ian McCartney"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Member of Parliament for Kensington and Chelsea In office 1 May 1997– 5 September 1999 - 5 September 1999 Preceded by Bob Ainsworth, Danny Alexander, David Amess, Michael Ancram, Michael Ancram, Michael Ancram, Dave Anderson, James Arbuthnot, Nancy Astor, Kemi Badenoch, Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Baker, Anthony Barber, Anthony Barber, Michael Bates, Hugh Bayley, Tony Benn, Tony Benn, Tony Benn, William Wedgwood Benn, Ernest Bevin, Ernest Bevin, Brian Binley, Norman Birkett, Norman Birkett, Godfrey Bloom, Tom Boardman, Tom Boardman, Robert Boothby, Robert Boothby, Virginia Bottomley, Herbert Bowden, Tracy Brabin, Robert Bradford, Bernard Braine, Bernard Braine, Andrew Henry William Brons, Peter Brooke, George Brown, Simon Burns, Alistair Burt, Adam Butler, Dawn Butler, Richard Caborn, Alexander Carlile, Lord Carlile, Robert Carr, Robert Carr, Neville Chamberlain... further results"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton In office 28 February 1974– 9 April 1992 - 9 April 1992 Preceded by Bob Ainsworth, Danny Alexander, David Amess, Michael Ancram, Michael Ancram, Michael Ancram, Dave Anderson, James Arbuthnot, Nancy Astor, Kemi Badenoch, Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Baker, Anthony Barber, Anthony Barber, Michael Bates, Hugh Bayley, Tony Benn, Tony Benn, Tony Benn, William Wedgwood Benn, Ernest Bevin, Ernest Bevin, Brian Binley, Norman Birkett, Norman Birkett, Godfrey Bloom, Tom Boardman, Tom Boardman, Robert Boothby, Robert Boothby, Virginia Bottomley, Herbert Bowden, Tracy Brabin, Robert Bradford, Bernard Braine, Bernard Braine, Andrew Henry William Brons, Peter Brooke, George Brown, Simon Burns, Alistair Burt, Adam Butler, Dawn Butler, Richard Caborn, Alexander Carlile, Lord Carlile, Robert Carr, Robert Carr, Neville Chamberlain... further results"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. Succeeded by Michael Ancram, John Horam, John Hutton, Ken PurchaseBob Ainsworth, Michael Bates, Hugh Bayley, Ann Coffey, Jim Cunningham, Angela Eagle, Nigel Evans, Cheryl Gillan, Nick Harvey, Charles Hendry, David Lidington, Peter Luff, Liz Lynne, Stephen Milligan, Nick Raynsford

Connections

He attended Le Cercle.

Career

Alan Clark was Minister for Defence Procurement from 25 July 1989 to 14 April 1992, succeeded in that by fellow Cercle Member (and later chairman), Jonathan Aitken.

Arms-to-Iraq

Full article: Arms-to-Iraq

Clark has been implicated in the Arms-to-Iraq weapons deal, together with fellow Cercle members Jonathan Aitken and Paul Channon‎.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Le Cercle/1990 (Oman)	30 November 1990	30 November 1990	Oman Al Bustan Hotel & Al-Baraka Palace Muscat	Start/End dates uncertain

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