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. He married Penelope (d 1994), daughter of Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley and they had three children: Christabel (b 1973, m Dario Sbrocca), Camilla (b 1975, m Alasdair Spink) and Jamie (b 1979, m Kate Sinton). In later life he lived in Tisbury, Wiltshire, where he died on 24 March 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word defeat:
“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat ... the redeeming things are not “happiness and pleasure” but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“And, “Better defeat almost,
If seen clear,
Than life’s victories of doubt
That need endless talk-talk
To make them out.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)