Lt.-Col. James Averell Clark Jr. (1920-1990)

He was born in Old Westbury, L.I., New York. Both he and his brother joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in December 1941 and he initially served as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force's No.71 (Eagle) Squadron. He was credited with destroying 16-German planes during the war and the citations for his awards of the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) with 4 Bronze and 1 Silver Oak Leaf Clusters, can be found on The Hall of Valor website. In 1946, he returned to New York as a stockbroker with the family firm, Clark Dodge Inc. But after four years, he returned to the Air Force as the commander of a jet fighter training group, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1953, he became President of the Lamson Aircraft Company, which serviced crop dusting planes. In 1959, he returned to Wall Street with Joseph Walker & Son, and in 1963 he became President of the Condor Mining Company which operated the Tipuani Gold Mine in the Bolivian Andes. In 1973, he was with Pegasus Air Freight, a company that transported race horses and cattle worldwide. He retired in 1980 and lived in Manhattan. His only brother and his mother's elder brother were fighter pilots, both killed in WWII.

On April 19, 1944, he married Lady Bridget Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1921-2005), daughter of the 5th Earl of Minto. They had one son, Christopher. They divorced in 1954 and he married Armene Lamson (b.1921) later that year, having a daughter, Carey.