Peter Clarke

Dear Friends & Members of the Souvenir Normand

It is with the greatest sadness that we have heard from his widow Jane that Peter passed away at the end of August after a short illness (not Covid). Peter and I joined the Junior Section of the Souvenir Normand back in the early 1970s when his father was the Chairman of the British Section and a Councillor on Hastings Borough Council which meant the SN had close links with Hastings which we very much miss today. We last saw him at the gala dinner at the end of the 2016 Reunion at the Royal Victoria Hotel and he had retained a love of, and interest in, the Souvenir Normand despite living in Hampshire. He was a lawyer by training but went into industry ending up as Company Secretary of British American Tobacco. He was very excited by plans to open a branch of the SN in Sicily as he and my mother visited that wonderful Norman country back in the 70s. He will be greatly missed and remembered by those of his generation with great fondness.