Venue: The Richard III Suite, The White Hart Hotel, Bailgate, Lincoln
Date: Monday 1st December 2014
Tickets: £15.00 - If you would like to join them for this event please contact Mrs. Doreen Ashton on (01522) 526762 by Friday, 28th November.
Guest Speaker: Sir Kenneth Melville Carlisle, The Conservative Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1979 to 1997.
Born 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 1,100-acre (4.5 km2) Wyken estate near Stanton in Suffolk.
He 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.