# Kenneth Carlisle
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{{Short description|British politician}}
{{for|the English cricketers|Kenneth Carlisle (cricketer, born 1908)|Kenneth Carlisle (cricketer, born 1882)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific_prefix =
|name = Sir Kenneth Carlisle
|honorific_suffix = [Kt](/source/Knight_Bachelor)
|image =
|office = [Lord Commissioner of the Treasury](/source/Lord_Commissioner_of_the_Treasury)
|prime_minister = [Margaret Thatcher](/source/Margaret_Thatcher)
|term_start = 27 July 1988
|term_end = 22 July 1990
|predecessor = [Michael Neubert](/source/Michael_Neubert)
|successor = [Sydney Chapman](/source/Sydney_Chapman_(politician))
|office1 = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom))
for [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|term_start1 = 3 May 1979
|term_end1 = 8 April 1997
|predecessor1 = [Margaret Jackson](/source/Margaret_Beckett)
|successor1 = [Gillian Merron](/source/Gillian_Merron)
|birth_name = Kenneth Melville Carlisle
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|3|25|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [Hiraethog Rural District](/source/Hiraethog_Rural_District)
|education = [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School)
|alma_mater = [Magdalen College, Oxford](/source/Magdalen_College%2C_Oxford)
|party = [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK))
|spouse = Lady Carla Cooper Carlisle
}}
'''Sir Kenneth Melville Carlisle''' (born 25 March 1941) is a politician in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). He was the [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) from 1979 to 1997.
==Early life==
Born in [Hiraethog](/source/Hiraethog_Rural_District), [Denbighshire](/source/Denbighshire), [Wales](/source/Wales), he is the son of Kenneth Ralph Malcolm Peter Carlisle and Elizabeth Mary McLaren. His father was a Director then Chairman of [Liebig Extract of Meat Company](/source/Liebig_Extract_of_Meat_Company) which owned the brands of [Oxo](/source/Oxo_(food)) and [Fray Bentos](/source/Premier_Foods). The company was bought by [Brooke Bond](/source/Brooke_Bond) in 1970 and [Unilever](/source/Unilever) in 1984, and Kenneth Carlisle worked at the company for eight years from 1966 to 1974. He was educated at [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School) and [Magdalen College, Oxford](/source/Magdalen_College%2C_Oxford), where he gained a [BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Laws) in Law. He became a barrister at the [Inner Temple](/source/Inner_Temple) in 1965. In 1974, he took over running of an arable farm on his father's {{convert|1100|acre|km2|adj=on}} Wyken estate near [Stanton](/source/Stanton%2C_Suffolk) in [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk).
==Parliamentary career==
Carlisle was elected as MP for [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) at the [1979 general election](/source/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election), becoming the first Conservative to win the seat in 50 years. ''The [Almanac of British Politics](/source/Almanac_of_British_Politics)'' noted that his win was helped by the presence of a candidate for the [Democratic Labour Party](/source/Democratic_Labour_Party_(UK%2C_1972)), which drew votes away from the incumbent [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) MP [Margaret Jackson](/source/Margaret_Beckett).[{{cite book |last1=Waller |first1=Robert |last2=Criddle |first2=Byron |title=[The Almanac of British Politics](/source/Almanac_of_British_Politics) |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-18541-6 |page=502 |edition=Sixth}}] In the 1980s he substantially increased his majority, thanks in part to the addition of several middle-class suburbs to the north of [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln%2C_England) before the [1983 general election](/source/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election).[{{cite book |last1=Waller |first1=Robert |last2=Criddle |first2=Byron |title=[The Almanac of British Politics](/source/Almanac_of_British_Politics) |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-18541-6 |page=503 |edition=Sixth}}]
He was a [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State](/source/Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_of_State) at the [Ministry of Defence](/source/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)) from October 1990 - March 1992 and the Minister for Roads and Traffic at the [Department of Transport](/source/Department_for_Transport) from May 1992 - May 1993. He is on the Council of the [Royal Horticultural Society](/source/Royal_Horticultural_Society).
He retired as an MP at the [1997 general election](/source/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election).[{{cite book |title=The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1997 |date=1997 |publisher=Times Books |location=London |isbn=0-7230-0956-2 |page=302}}] His successor as Conservative candidate in Lincoln lost the seat to Labour's [Gillian Merron](/source/Gillian_Merron) by over 11,000 votes.[{{cite book |title=The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1997 |date=1997 |publisher=Times Books |location=London |isbn=0-7230-0956-2 |page=179}}] New boundaries introduced for the election contributed to this defeat, as it was projected that had Lincoln been fought on these boundaries in [1992](/source/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election), it would have had a Labour majority of about 1,000 (whereas Carlisle had won by just over 2,000 votes on the old boundaries).[Carla Carlisle in ''Country Life'', 14 November 2012]
==Honours==
* He was [knighted](/source/Knight_Bachelor) in the [1994 Queen's Birthday Honours List](/source/1994_Birthday_Honours) "For political service".[{{cite web |title=The London Gazette 10 June 1994 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/53696/supplement/2 |website=The London Gazette |access-date=10 September 2022 |language=en}}] This allowed him to be called "[Sir](/source/Sir) Kenneth Carlisle".
==References==
==External links==
* [http://www.wykenvineyards.co.uk Wyken Vineyards]
* [http://www.stantonpreschool.co.uk Patron of Stanton Preschool]
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-kenneth-carlisle| Kenneth Carlisle }}
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{{succession box
| title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| years = [1979](/source/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1997](/source/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election)
| before = [Margaret Jackson](/source/Margaret_Beckett)
| after = [Gillian Merron](/source/Gillian_Merron)
}}
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Category:UK MPs 1979–1983
Category:UK MPs 1987–1992
Category:UK MPs 1992–1997
Category:People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury
Category:Politics of Lincoln, England
Category:Knights Bachelor
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