Clive Carr

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Clive Carr is a former vice-president of Arsenal Football Club and a former hotelier.

He is the grandson of former Arsenal Chairman Sir Bracewell Smith, alongside his brother Richard, through their late mother Eileen. [1] His father Harry Lascelles Carr played cricket for Glamorgan, served in the RAF in the Second World War and died in 1943. [2]

Clive Carr married Isabel, daughter of Vicomte Devezeaux de Rancougne, in 1963. They have two children. They divorced in 1970.[ citation needed ] In 1970, he married Isabel, daughter of Thirlby and Ida Pearce. They have two children.[ citation needed ]

He became chairman and chief executive of the Park Lane Hotel in 1976 and remained so for twenty years until the hotel was sold in 1996 to Sheraton Hotels and Resorts.

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References

  1. "A Gooner's Guide to Arsenal's Finances Part 3". Archived from the original on 2010-01-31. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  2. "Harry Carr". Cricinfo.