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CLAPCOTT, HENRY, son of George Bunter Clapcott, Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, and Eliza, dau. of Rev. James Dowland DD, Whitchurch, Dorset; b. 28 Nov 1830; adm. 12 Jan 1844 (Scott's); QS 1845; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1849, adm. pens. 19 May 1849, scholar 1850, matr. Mich. 1849; BA 1853; emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he took up sheep farming; JP New Zealand; m. 8 Dec 1858 Mary Jane, second dau. of Maj. --- Power, 60th Foot.

CLAPHAM, ---; b.; adm. 26 May 1662; a boarder; left 1663 (Busby’s Account Book).

CLAPHAM, CHARLES HERBERT, son of Edward Clapham MD MRCS, Wimbledon, Surrey, previously of Devizes, Wilts. , and Catherine, dau. of Edward Thurlow Leeds, Eyebury, Peterborough, Northants. ; b. 1 Feb 1869; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1883; left Dec 1885; an invalid (but described as “laundry proprietor” when living Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1901); m. 27 Jul 1907 Mary Ross, dau. of Chester Waring Finch, Moor House, Staines, Middlesex; d. 13 Jan 1921.

Clapham, Douglas, son of Edward Clapham, M. D., M.R.C.S., of Wimbledon, by Emily Catherine, daughter of Edward Thurlow Leeds, of Eyebury, Peterborough; b. Jan. 19, 1876; adm. Jan. 17, 1889 (H); exhibitioner 1889; Q.S. Jan. 16, 1890; left Jan. 1893; R.M.A. Wool­ wich Aug. 1893; 2nd Lieut. R. A. Nov. 2, 1895; Lieut. Nov. 2, 1898; Capt. April 1, 1901; employed in the Experimental School of Gunnery; Capt.-Instructor April 1, 1913; Major Oct. 30, 1914; acting Lieut.-Col. March 11, 1918 - April 9, 1919; Lieut.-Col. May 1, 1921; served in the S. African War 1899-1900, in China 1900, and in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 23, 1918, and July 7, 1919; O.B.E. June 13, 1918; D.S.O. June 3, 1919; m. Jan. 2, 1906, Frances Colledge, younger daughter of Eldred Halton, of Wimbledon; d. April 29, 1960.

CLAPHAM, EDWARD LEEDS, brother of Charles Herbert Clapham (qv); b. 1 Feb 1870; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1883; QS 12 Jun 1884; left Jul 1886; Assistant Master, Wellingborough GS; subsequently in business (described as “laundry proprietor” in 1901 Census, when living Wimbledon, Surrey); played for England at hockey, 1895, 1902; m. 14 Jul 1924 Jessie Unwin, widow of Egerton Railton, and younger dau. of John Mulliner, Manchester; d. 9 Jun 1937.

Clapham, Martha; Dame of a boarding house in College Street 1775-8, of 1 Dean’s Yard 1778-90, of 1 Little Dean’s Yard 1790 (still there 9 Jan 1803) ; “a woman of the old school, both as to the fashion of her garb, and as to the singular decency and matronly propriety with which she invested the character of a Dame” (Public Characters of the year 1828, 103) ; m. (by 1765) Richard Clapham, Brodsworth, Yorks., and Dartmouth Street, Westminster, Secretary to Archbishop of York ; d. 22 Aug 1804. Mother of Robert Clapham (qv) and of Thomas Clapham (qv, also Usher). Presumably Martha Smith, spinster, who m. at St.George’s, Hanover Square 15 Dec 1757 Richard Clapham. Her husband “Richard Clapham, Esq.”, Secretary to Archbishop of York, d. at his house in Dartmouth Street, Westminster, Mar 1774 (Morning Chronicle 17 Mar 1774) (will proved PCC 22 Mar 1774, as Richard Clapham, otherwise Clapam, of Brodworth, Yorkshire, gentleman).