Henry Maitland Clark
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Henry Maitland Clark (born 11 April 1929) was a Northern Irish colonial administrator and politician.
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[edit] Background
Clark went to Shrewsbury School, Trinity College, Dublin and then Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He went into the Colonial Service on leaving Cambridge, becoming a District Officer in Tanganyika.
[edit] Parliament
In 1959 Clark resigned from the Colonial Service to enter Parliament as Ulster Unionist MP for Antrim North. The Ulster Unionists were then in alliance with the Conservatives and Clark was treated by the Conservatives the same as Conservative MPs elected from Great Britain. He therefore chaired the Conservative MPs' East Africa Committee in 1963-65. He was also chosen as a delegate to the Council of Europe and Western European Union from 1962 to 1965.
Clark's background in the Colonial Service was also made use of when he was made an election observer. He led the British delegation observing the election in Uganda in 1965, and was a member of the Commonwealth delegation observing the Mauritius election in 1967.
[edit] Defeat
At the 1970 general election, Clark lost his seat to Rev Ian Paisley of the Protestant Unionist Party. He became a wine merchant in 1972, giving up the business in 1976. From 1977 he was Assistant Controller of the Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas.
[edit] References
- Who's Who of British MPs, vol. IV, Harvester Press, 1981.
