Charles Clarke - Personal Life

Personal Life

Clarke married Carol Pearson in Hackney, London, in 1984. They have two sons, both born in Hackney: Christopher Richard Clarke (born 1987) and Matthew Jack Clarke (born 1990); they live in Norwich.

Clarke speaks Cuban Spanish (a legacy of his student links with Cuba), French, and German.

In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society to acknowledge its contribution to education and in memory of his father, who had been a statistician.

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