Margaret Thatcher Gallery

Sir Richard Marsh, politician, Eastbourne

Sir Richard Marsh (1928-2011), English politician, at Eastbourne. He was Labour MP for Greenwich from 1959 until 1971, and became a government minister. He left politics in 1971, and became a supporter of Margaret Thatcher in 1978. In 1981 he became Baron Marsh and sat in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer. Date: 1960s

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Visit to Fowey by Prime Minister, Cornwall. June 1990

Visiting Fowey in June 1990, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher met some of the RNLI crew and went for a trip around Fowey harbour in the lifeboat. She watched a mock rescue, from the lifeboat to the RNAS Culdrose helicopter, from the shore at Albert Quay. The lifeboat used was Faithful Forrester, on loan to Fowey from Dover. After decommissioning in 1997 she was sold to Australia. Photographer: Jonathan Barker

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Alan Clark as a little boy

Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark (1928 - 1999), British conservative politician and diarist, pictured as a little boy in The Sketch magazine. He was the elder son of Mr Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Director of the National Gallery (who was also featured in the magazine at the same time alongside Alan's younger twin brother and sister, Colin and Collette). Clark, and outspoken and irreverent M.P, is best known for his diaries, a candid account charting his experiences of political life under Margaret Thatcher. Date: 1934

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