Mark Carlisle
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The Right Honourable The Lord Carlisle of Bucklow QC DL PC |
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| Secretary of State for Education and Science | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 11 September 1981 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Shirley Williams |
| Succeeded by | Keith Joseph |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science |
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In office 6 November 1978 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Leader | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Norman St John-Stevas |
| Succeeded by | Gordon Oakes |
| Member of Parliament for Warrington South Runcorn (1964–1983) |
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In office 15 October 1964 – 11 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Dennis Vosper |
| Succeeded by | Chris Butler |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 July 1929 |
| Died | 14 July 2005 (aged 76) |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow, QC, DL, PC (7 July 1929 – 14 July 2005) was a Conservative British politician and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Runcorn from 1964 to 1983 and then for Warrington South until 1987. Created a life peer in November 1987, he served as Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1979 until 1981.
Mark Carlisle's father was a Manchester cotton merchant, and his parents were in Montevideo, Uruguay, when he was born. He was educated at Radley College in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and the University of Manchester. He was Chairman of the university's Conservative association, and Federation of university Conservatives in 1953. In 1957 he was vice-chairman of North-West Young Conservatives. He was admitted Gray's Inn, was called to the bar, and made QC in 1971.
Carlisle was an unsuccessful Conservative candidate at the 1958 St Helens by-election, and lost again in the subsequent 1959 general election. He married Sandra des Voeux, a Cornishwoman; and they had a daughter.
He was eventually selected for the Cheshire constituency of Runcorn, a rural and suburban seat which he won at the 1964 general election. He was a liberal Tory from the start, voting for the abolition of capital punishment in 1964. Tall, affable and easy-going, he was a more relaxed figure in Heath's party than later under the first lady Prime Minister. He disliked her abrasive manner, and according to the Daily Telegraph "was unhappy as Education secretary". He represented legal and penal policy on the party's 1922 committee. Carlisle was on the board of NACRO for many years and an experienced voice on the Home Office Advisory Council 1966–70. His reasoning was revealed in a Commons speech made twenty years later on 1 April 1987:
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