Clement Freud
| Sir Clement Freud | |
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Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 11 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Malcolm Moss |
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Member of Parliament for Isle of Ely |
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In office 26 July 1973 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Legge-Bourke |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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Clemens Rafael Freud 24 April 1924 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 15 April 2009 (aged 84) London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Jill Flewett (1950–2009) |
| Children | 5 |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was a British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.
The grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of Lucian Freud, he moved to the United Kingdom from Germany as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer before becoming known to a wider audience as a television and radio personality. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament in 1973, retaining his seat until 1987, when he received a knighthood. In 2016, seven years after he died, three women made public allegations of child sexual abuse and rape by Freud, which led to police investigations.
He was born Clemens Rafael Freud in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst L. Freud (an architect) and Lucie née Brasch. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian Freud. His family fled to Britain from Nazi Germany and his forenames were anglicised to Clement Raphael. He spent his later childhood in Hampstead where he attended the Hall School, Hampstead, a preparatory school. He also attended two independent schools: he boarded at Dartington Hall, and also went to St Paul's School, London. He naturalised as a British subject on 4 September 1939, three days after the outbreak of World War II.
During the war Freud joined the Royal Ulster Rifles and served in the ranks. He acted as an aide to Field Marshal Montgomery. He worked at the Nuremberg Trials and in 1947 was commissioned as an officer. He married June Flewett (the inspiration for Lucy Pevensie in C. S. Lewis's children's series The Chronicles of Narnia) in 1950, and the couple had five children. Flewett had taken the stage name Jill Raymond in 1944, and after her husband's knighthood, has been known as Lady Freud. Freud became an Anglican at the time of his marriage.
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