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Ralph Clarke
In office 1936–1955Preceded by Henry Cautley Succeeded by Evelyn Emmet
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Ralph Stephenson Clarke
(1892-08-17 ) 17 August 1892Died 9 May 1970(1970-05-09) (aged 77 ) Citizenship United Kingdom Nationality British Political party Conservative Spouse
(m. 1921)
Children Three Residence Borde Hill
Colonel Sir Ralph Stephenson Clarke , KBE , TD , DL (17 August 1892 – 9 May 1970)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP ) for East Grinstead from 1936 to 1955.
He was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in July 1936, after East Grinstead's Conservative MP Henry Cautley was ennobled as Baron Cautley .[2] Clarke held the seat until he stood down at the 1955 general election .[3]
He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant (DL ) of Sussex in 1932,[4] and in the 1955 New Year Honours , he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), "for political and public services".[5]
Clarke was the son of Colonel Stephenson Clarke. He married Rebekah Mary Buxton, daughter of Gerald Buxton and Lucy Ethel Pease, on 15 December 1921, and they had three children.[6] His wife was from the Pease family of Darlington ; Lucy's father was Joseph Whitwell Pease and her maternal grandfather was Alfred Fox, who created Glendurgan Garden .
The Stephenson Clarkes were the founders[7] in 1730 of Stephenson Clarke Shipping , Britain's oldest shipping company.[8] In 1892, Ralph Clarke's father purchased a 200-acre (0.81 km 2 ) estate at Borde Hill , near Haywards Heath in West Sussex , and from about 1912 began collecting trees and shrubs began by financing plant-collecting expeditions to the Himalayas and China .[9] Ralph Clarke took up residence there is 1949, after the death of his father, and opened the gardens to the public in 1965.[9]
References [ edit ]
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 481. ISBN 0-900178-27-2 .
^ "UK General Election results May 1955: East Grinstead to Fife East" . Richard Kimber's political science resources . Retrieved 27 November 2009 .
^ "No. 33835" . The London Gazette . 14 June 1932. p. 3875.
^ "No. 40366" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1955. p. 11.
^ Lundy, Darryl. "Colonel Sir Ralph Stephenson Clarke" . ThePeerage.com . Retrieved 27 November 2009 . [unreliable source ]
^ "The Stephenson Clarkes" . Great Gardens of Sussex . Retrieved 27 November 2009 .
^ "About Us" . Stephenson Clarke Shipping Limited . Retrieved 27 November 2009 .
^ a b Borde Hill Garden. "History" . Archived from the original on 10 June 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009 .
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