- Philip Clarke
Philip Christopher Clarke, born 1933, is an
Irish republican and former politician.He was born in
Dublin . A civil servant and an evening student atUniversity College Dublin , Clarke joined theIrish Republican Army and was captured after a raid on aBritish Army barracks inOmagh . He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.In the 1955 UK General Election, Clarke was elected MP for the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, winning 30,529 votes, and becoming the youngest MP at the time.
As Clarke was in prison at the time of his election, serving ten years for a
treason felony, his opponent, Lieutenant Colonel Lord Robert Grosvenor, lodged a petition to have him unseated. The case appeared before theNorthern Ireland High Court in August 1955. In October, the court unseated Clarke and awarded the seat to his Unionist contender.ee Also
List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service References
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Saoirse ", September 2005.
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