Jack Stewart-Clark represented the Conservative and Unionist Party in the European Parliament from 1979 until 1999.
11 Facts About Jack Stewart-Clark
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Jack Stewart-Clark attended Balliol College, Oxford, followed by the Harvard Business School, after his National Service, during which he had been commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1948, serving in North Africa.
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Jack Stewart-Clark was appointed in 1958 to the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Bodyguard in Scotland.
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Jack Stewart-Clark stood in the General Election of 1959 as Unionist candidate for Aberdeen North, coming second to Hector Hughes.
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Jack Stewart-Clark continued as an MEP, sitting for the successor East Sussex and Kent South constituency until 1999.
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Jack Stewart-Clark served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament from 1992 to 1997.
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Jack Stewart-Clark took part in several parliamentary delegations and chaired a number of initiatives, with a particular interest in the prevention of drug abuse, and subsequently became a trustee of the substance abuse group Mentor Foundation.
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Jack Stewart-Clark said in 2016 that he was in favour of continued UK membership of the European Union.
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In 1995, Sir Jack Stewart-Clark inherited Dundas Castle from his mother and began a programme of restoration.
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In 2016, Jack Stewart-Clark gained approval from the Vatican to take a Passion Play, dramatising the last days of Christ, to the Opera Jail in Milan, Italy.
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Jack Stewart-Clark has said: "[Prisoners] can become redeemed in prison, even if you're never getting out".