Robin Chichester-Clark

Sir Robert "Robin" Chichester-Clark (10 January 1928 – 5 August 2016) was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Londonderry from 1955 until February 1974, and to date was the last MP representing a seat in Northern Ireland to be a British government minister.

Early life Chichester-Clark was born at Moyola Park, Castledawson, County Londonderry, his family's ancestral home. He was the eldest of three children of James J. Lenox-Conyngham Clark and Marion Caroline Dehra, née Chichester.

Personal life He was first married to Jane Helen Goddard, daughter of Air Marshall Sir Robert Victor Goddard, KCB, CB. They married in 1953 and had three children, Emma, Mark and Sophia; they divorced in 1972. He owned homes in Fulham, London, and Yarlington, Somerset.

During a holiday in Burnham Overy, Norfolk, Chichester-Clark died from a stroke on 5 August 2016, at the age of 88. He was buried near his home in Yarlington.

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