Jack Stewart-Clark

Sir Jack Stewart-Clark, 3rd Baronet was a British Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He represented the Conservative and Unionist Party in the Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group).^[1] Stewart-Clark was born on 17 September 1929 in Dalmeny, Scotland. He is the owner of Dundas Castle.

Family:

Married to Lydia (née Loudon) since 1958

Five children: Daphne (Stephenson), Alexander, Nadia (Waterfield), Zarina (Noel) and Natalie

Six grandchildren: Chiara Stephenson, Natasha, Elena and Emily Waterfield, William and Cecilia Noel

Education:

• Wellesley House, Loch Rannoch, Perthshire

• Eton College, Windsor

• Balliol College, Oxford

• Harvard Business School, USA

Military Service:

• Commissioned into HM Coldstream Guards 1948 – 1948. Served in North Africa

• Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute (1970 -1983)

• Member Royal Company of Archers, Queens Bodyguard for Scotland (1958 to present)

Business Career:

J. & P. Coats Ltd (1953- 1969) • Worked in Uruguay, Canada, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Pakistan and again in Holland. • M.D. : J.& P. Coats, Pakistan, Ltd (1961 to 1966); • M.D. : J.A. Carp’s Garenfabrieken (1966 to 1969)

Philips Electronics (1969-1979) • Chairman and Managing Director Philips Electrical Ltd (Consumer goods arm of Philips Industries U.K.) (1970-1975); • Managing Director of Pye of Cambridge Ltd (Professional arm of Philips Industries UK, with 25 companies and employing 23,000 people) (1975 – 1979)

Non Executive Director: • Cope Allman PLC (1979-1982) • A.T. Kearney Ltd (1979-1992) • Oppenheimer International (1980-1985) • Low and Bonar PLC (1982-1995) • TSB Scotland Ltd (1986-1989) • Pioneer Concrete Holdings PLC (1986-1999) • Chairman of Reditronics Ltd (1983-1989)

Chairman and Managing Director of Dundas Castle Ltd. (1996–present)

Political Career:

Stood in the General Election of 1958 as Unionist Candidate for North Aberdeen

Member of the European Parliament • for East Sussex from 1979-1994 • for East Sussex and Kent East from 1994-1999

• Vice-President of the European Parliament 1992-1997

• Treasurer and Member of the Policy Bureau of the British Conservatives in the European Parliament 1980-1983

• Chairman of the E.P. delegation to Canada 1979-1984

• Vice-Chairman of the E.P. delegation to Japan 1984-1989

• Spokesman for the British Conservatives on the Committee of External Trade 1979-1984

• Spokesman for Institutional Affairs 1984 – 1987

• Spokesman for Youth, Education, Culture, Media and Sport 1989-1992

• Chairman of CRONWE (Conference of Regions of North West Europe) 1988-1992

• Chairman of the European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans (1994-1996)

• Co-Chairman of EPIC (European Parliamentarians and Industrialists Council) 1984-1999)

• Chairman of the European Institute for Security (1984-1987)

• Author and Rapporteur of a special committee of enquiry into drugs in 1996

• Represented the European Parliament on the Policy Bureau and Board of EMCDDA (European Council for Drugs and Drugs Abuse) in Lisbon (1999 – 2005)

• Creator and joint organizer with UNDCP of the Inter-parliamentary Conference on Drugs from 1998 to 2004 (meetings in Scotland, Vienna, Washington, Bolivia, Japan and Sweden)

• Honorary Vice-President of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party from 1999 to 2001

Interests:

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Mentor (UK) Foundation - preventing alcohol and drugs abuse amongst young people. Responsible for setting up the Scottish office of the Foundation. 1999 – present.

• Photography: Associate of the Royal Photographic Society

• Music: Creator of ‘Concerts in the Kirk’ at Dalmeny church

• Travel: Europe, India, Bhutan, Brazil, China, Peru, Argentina, Russia

• Golf

• Shooting and Golden Retrievers

• Religion: Creator/facilitator of ‘Life of Jesus Christ’ play at Dundas Castle, in Glasgow, in Uganda and at Louisiana State penitentiary.

• Paintings and clocks

Publications:

‘European Competition Law’ (Co-author with David Jacobs)

‘It’s My Problem as Well’ Drugs Education (co-author with Tim Rathbone MP)

Additional Information:

His eldest daughter, Daphne, was a bridesmaid at the 1966 wedding of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

References

2. Sir Jack Stewart-Clark

External links

• Dundas Castle

Persondata
Name	Stewart-Clark, Jack
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	17 September 1929
Place of birth	Dalmeny
Date of death
Place of death