Editing Kenneth Clarke (section)

==Personal life==
In 1964, Clarke married Gillian Edwards, a Cambridge contemporary;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334975/Is-there-more-to-Ken-the-Bloke.html |title=Is there more to Ken the Bloke? |date=23 July 2001 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=15 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217031317/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334975/Is-there-more-to-Ken-the-Bloke.html |archive-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> they had a son and a daughter.<ref name="profile"/> She died of cancer in July 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/gillian-clarke-historian-political-activist-and-quiltmaker-who-stood-at-ken-clarkes-right-hand-for-more-than-half-a-century-10389005.html |title=Gillian Clarke: Historian, political activist and quilt-maker who stood at Ken Clarke's right hand for more than half a century |date=14 July 2015 |work=The Independent |location=London |access-date=4 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821171825/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/gillian-clarke-historian-political-activist-and-quiltmaker-who-stood-at-ken-clarkes-right-hand-for-more-than-half-a-century-10389005.html |archive-date=21 August 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Clarke's enthusiasm for cigars, [[jazz]] and motor racing is well known,<ref name="profile"/> and he enjoys [[birdwatching]] as well as reading political history. He is also popularly recognised for his affection for suede ''[[Hush Puppies]]'', a brand of shoe, which became a "trademark" of his during his early ministerial days.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7126371.ece |title=Ken Clarke sheds Hush Puppies for new job |location=London |work=[[The Times]] |first=Philippe |last=Naughton |date=14 May 2010 |access-date=10 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629103816/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7126371.ece |archive-date=29 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{subscription required}}</ref> His autobiography denies he wore Hush Puppies and says these suede shoes were hand-made by Crockett & Jones.<ref>Ken Clarke 2016</ref>

Clarke is a sports enthusiast, being a supporter of both local football clubs [[Notts County]]<ref>The Notts County Miscellany by David Clayton, The History Press, 17 March 2017</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jun/04/sport.comment|title=Kenneth Clarke: I was there when . . .|first=Harcharan|last=Chandhoke|date=4 June 2001|access-date=17 June 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202150817/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jun/04/sport.comment|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Nottingham Forest]], who offered him a chair,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-forest-offer-chair-to-kenneth-clarke-1257471.html|title=Football: Forest offer chair to Kenneth Clarke|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|date=23 June 1997|access-date=17 June 2017|archive-date=16 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616170430/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-forest-offer-chair-to-kenneth-clarke-1257471.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and a former President of [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club]]. He is President of both [[Radcliffe Olympic F.C.|Radcliffe Olympic]] and the Radcliffe on Trent Male Voice Choir, and a keen follower of [[Formula One]] motorsport. He was involved with tobacco giant [[British American Tobacco]]'s Formula One team [[British American Racing]] (BAR) and has attended [[List of Formula One Grands Prix|Grands Prix]] in support of the BAR team. BAR was sold to [[Honda]] in 2005. He also appeared on the podium of the [[2012 British Grand Prix]] to present the first-place trophy to [[Mark Webber (racing driver)|Mark Webber]].

Clarke attended the [[1966 FIFA World Cup Final]] and jokingly claims to have been influential in persuading the linesman, [[Tofiq Bahramov]], to award a goal to [[Geoff Hurst]] when the [[England national football team|England]] striker had seen his shot hit the crossbar of opponents [[Germany national football team|West Germany]], leaving doubt as to whether the ball had crossed the line. Clarke's position in the [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] [[crowd]] was right behind the linesman at the time and he shouted at the official to award a goal.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chandhoke|first=Harcharan|title=I was there when... England won the World Cup|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jun/04/sport.comment|access-date=20 March 2015|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=4 June 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402162221/http://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jun/04/sport.comment|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lord Clarke is a lover of [[real ale]] and has been an active member of the [[Campaign for Real Ale]] (CAMRA).<ref>{{cite news | title = Campaign to include women in real ale round | work = The Guardian | date = 6 August 2002 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/aug/06/advertising.marketingandpr | access-date = 24 September 2008 | location = London | first = Sarah | last = Hall | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140909183540/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/aug/06/advertising.marketingandpr | archive-date = 9 September 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref> 

His memoir, ''[[Kind of Blue (book)|Kind of Blue]]'', was published in October 2016.<ref name="Clarke2016">{{cite book|first=Ken |last=Clarke|title=Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2hyDAAAQBAJ|date=6 October 2016|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-1-5098-3724-3}}</ref>