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Name: CLARK, William Arthur Weir KCMG, CBE, Sir
Nee: bro of Peter George Dewar Clark
Birth Date: 5 Dec 1908 Scotland
Death Date: 29 May 1967 Lambeth, London
First Date: 1931
Last Date: 1945
Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1931. Seconded to the Secretariat in 1939. Asst. Secretary, Secretariat, Kenya in 1939, Originally Admin Cadet 1931
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1935 Margaret Jean Dobbie b. 1911
Children: Jean C. (1938); Richard (1945)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Colonial
School: Stewart's College, Edinburgh University and Trinity College Oxford, MA (Edin.)
General Information:
Colonial - Admin Cadet Kenya 1931; DO 1933; Asst. Sec. 1937; Secon. DO 1939-45; Private Sec. to Sec. of State for Dom. Affrs. for various periods 1942-45 etc.
Knighted 1961
Who's Who Private Sec to Clement Attlee
High Commissioner in Cyprus