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CLARKE, JOHN, son of John Clarke, Saltash, Cornwall; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 11) 1755, (aged 14, sic) 1756. [Probably John Clarke, son of John Clarke, Halton, Cornwall, arm., Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1759, aged 17, MA 1763, adm. Inner Temple 1759 : note that Elizabeth, widow of John Clarke of Halton in St. Dominick, Cornwall, and dau. of John Hickes, Saltash, Cornwall, m. May 1752 Rev. Thomas Horndon, Rector of St. Dominick] [note will John Clarke, Saltash, Cornwall, proved PCC 12 Jun 1790]

CLARKE, JOSEPH, son of Rev. Joseph Clarke DD, Rector of Long Ditton, Surrey; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1721; in under school list 1724; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Mar 1726/7, matr. 1728; BA 1730/1; MA 1734; Fellow, Magdalene Coll. 1732; a controversialist; author, Treatise of Space, 1733, and other works; lic. to m. 7 Sep 1742 Frances Walter, Worcester Park, Surrey; d. 30 Dec 1749. DNB. [Perhaps Joseph Clarke, son of Joseph Clarke, and Mary ---, bapt. East Molesey, Surrey 8 Feb 1710 (IGI)] [will proved PCC 28 Jan 1751, as of Long Ditton, Surrey]

Clarke, Louis Macdowell Sydenham, son of the Rev. Hilton Sydenham Clarke, Curate of St. Paul's, Chiswick, Middlesex; b. Aug. 22, 1879; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (H); left July 1894.

CLARKE, MATTHEW, son of Rev. Matthew Clarke, Rector of Bitterley, Shropshire, and of St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London; nephew of Rev. Thomas Hill DD, Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm. (having previously been at Charterhouse Sch. ); KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1648, adm. pens. 20 May 1648, scholar 1649, matr. Mich. 1651; BA 1651/2; MA 1655; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1653 - c. 1658; Chaplain to Col. Hacker’s Regt., Scotland; Rector of Narborough, Leics., 28 May 1658 until ejection under Act of Uniformity of 1662; became a nonconformist preacher in Leicestershire; thrice imprisoned in Leicester Gaol “for the crime of preaching”; licensed as presbyterian preacher at Market Harborough, Leics., 29 May 1672; retired to Norwich, where he lived with his daughter; an oriental scholar of some distinction; m.; d. 1708, aged 78. DNB.

CLARKE, MAYNARD; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1729/30; apprenticed to Joseph Norton, attorney, St. Ann’s, Westminster, 22 Sep 1735; reapprenticed to James Francis, Castle Yard, London, 31 May 1744; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Oct 1735, called to bar 31 May 1756, having waived his first admission and taking his “standing as from five years last past” (Black Book, xiii, 266). [presumably Maynard Clarke who m. 9 Mar 1757 Elizabeth Thompson (IGI)][will of Maynard Clarke, St. Andrew, Surrey county, Jamaica, proved PCC 8 Dec 1759]

CLARKE, NATHANIEL GARNETT, son of Nathaniel Richard Clarke, Handsworth, Staffs., Serjeant-at-law, and Judge under Small Debts Act for Dudley and Wolverhampton, and Anna Maria Führmann, dau. of Thomas Garnett, Nantwich, Cheshire; b. 14 Feb 1818; adm. 7 Jun 1830; Min. Can. 1832; Peterhouse, Camb., adm. pens. 17 Mar 1837, Gisborne Scholar 26 Nov 1838, matr. Mich. 1837; d. 5 Jul 1839.

CLARKE, RICHARD BROWN, son of Thomas Clarke, Hailsham, Sussex, and Catherine, dau. of Richard Brown, Golden Square, Westminster, and Stamford Hill, Middlesex; b. 5 Dec 1774; adm. 22 Sep 1788 (as Richard Brown Clark); of Hailsham, Sussex; officer in Northamptonshire Militia; d. 14 Jan 1800.

CLARKE, ROCHFORD HYDE, brother of Edward Hyde Clarke (qv; b. 20 Sep 1858; adm. (G) 4 Jun 1874; left Christmas 1874; “retired tea planter” (sic, 1881 census); d. 5 Oct 1930.

Clarke, Roger Noel, son of Albert Hingley Leach Clarke, marketing dir., of St Anne’s-on­Sea, Lancs, and Mary Mitcheson, d. of Roger Muir Oddie, solicitor, of Blackburn; b. 8 Dec. 1948; adm. Sept. 1962 (L); left July 1967; with Coutts & Co., bankers; Hornsey Coll. of Art; Roy. Coll. of Art; qualified as architect; partner, Chaloner & Clarke, architects; m. Sylvia Thorne; d. 1 Dec. 2009.

Clarke, Ronald Edwin, son of Eno Edwin Clarke, banker, of Ealing, and Rose, d. of Henry Squires Green; b. 16 Aug. 1908; adm. Jan. 1922 (R); left July 1925; d. 21 June 1933.