Editing Clement Freud (section)

{{Short description|English broadcaster, writer, politician, chef and alleged sex offender (1924–2009)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox person
|honorific_prefix   = [[Sir]]
|name         = Clement Freud
|image        = Sir-Clement-Raphael-Freud.jpg
|caption      = Freud in 1970
|birth_name   = Clemens Rafael Freud
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1924|4|24|df=y}}
|birth_place  = [[Berlin]], [[Weimar Republic|German Reich]]
|death_date   = {{death date and age|2009|4|15|1924|4|24|df=y}}
|death_place  = [[London]], England
|nationality  = British
|occupation   = {{hlist|Broadcaster|chef|MP|writer}}
|party        = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
|spouse       = {{marriage|[[June Flewett]]|1950}}
|children     = 5, including [[Matthew Freud|Matthew]] and [[Emma Freud|Emma]]
|parents      = [[Ernst L. Freud]] (father)
|relatives    = [[Freud family]]
|module = {{infobox officeholder|embed=yes
|office1      = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />[[North East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|North East Cambridgeshire]]<br />{{nobold|[[Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)|Isle of Ely]] (1973–1983)}}
|term_start1  = 27 July 1973
|term_end1    = 18 May 1987
|predecessor1 = [[Harry Legge-Bourke|Henry Legge-Bourke]]
|successor1   = [[Malcolm Moss]]
| office2     = [[Rector of the University of St Andrews|Lord Rector of the <br/> University of St Andrews]]
| term_start2 = November 2002
| term_end2   = October 2005
| predecessor2  = [[Andrew Neil]]
| successor2    = [[Kevin Dunion]]
|rank              = Second lieutenant
|serviceyears      = 1942–1947
}}
}}
'''Sir Clement Raphael Freud''' (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009)<ref name="telegraph2">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5162533/-Clement-Freud-dies-at-84.html |title=Clement Freud dies at 84 |last=Swaine |first=Jon |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 April 2009 |location=London |date=16 April 2009}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="guardianobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary |title=Obituary: Clement Freud |last=Steel |first=David |date=16 April 2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=16 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030113444/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary |archive-date=30 October 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Freud Ego |last=Freud |first=Clement |year=2001 |publisher=BBC Worldwide |chapter=Chapter 1}}</ref> was a British [[media personality|broadcaster]], [[writer]], [[politician]] and [[chef]]. The son of [[Ernst L. Freud]] and grandson of [[Sigmund Freud]], Clement moved to the United Kingdom from [[Nazi Germany]] as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer. 

He became known to a wider audience as a television and radio personality. Freud was the longest serving panellist on the [[BBC Radio 4]] panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'', appearing in each of the first 143 episodes, and making subsequent regular appearances up until his death in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://just-a-minute.info/eps.html|title=JUST A MINUTE EPISODE LIST!}}</ref>

Freud was elected as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] in 1973, retaining his seat until 1987, when he received a [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]]. In 2016, seven years after his death, three women made public allegations of [[child sexual abuse]] and [[rape]] by Freud, which led to police investigations.<ref name="Evans" />