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Sir Kenneth Melville Carlisle (born 25 March 1941) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1979 to 1997. Early lifeBorn in Hiraethog, Denbighshire, 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 which owned the brands of Oxo and Fray Bentos. The company was bought by Brooke Bond in 1970 and Unilever in 1984, and Kenneth Carlisle later worked at the company for eight years from 1966-74. He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a BA in Law. He became a barrister at the 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 in Suffolk. Parliamentary careerHe was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from October 1990 - March 1992 and the Minister for Roads and Traffic at the Department of Transport from May 1992 - May 1993. He is on the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society. FarmingHis farm has a {{convert|7|acre|m2|adj=on}} vineyard, shop and the Leaping Hare restaurant. The vineyard which has the Bacchus grape produces about 14,000 bottles of wine a year. He is interested in conservation via the Countryside Stewardship Scheme, notably that of the grey partridge. Personal lifeHe married Carla from Mississippi in 1986. They have a son, Sam. From 1996-8 and 2000–12, his wife wrote the weekly Spectator column for Country Life magazine.[1] References1. ^Carla Carlisle in Country Life, 14 November 2012 External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Lincoln | years = 1979–1997 | before = Margaret Jackson | after = Gillian Merron }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlisle, Kenneth}} 13 : 1941 births|Living people|People educated at Harrow School|Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1983–87|UK MPs 1979–83|UK MPs 1987–92|UK MPs 1992–97|People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury|Politics of Lincoln, England|Knights Bachelor|Politicians awarded knighthoods |
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