CLARKE, EDWARD HYDE, eldest son of Tanner Owen Hyde Clarke, Upper Grosvenor Street, London, and Fanny Julia Braithwaite (IGI); b. 7 Nov 1854; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1869; left Christmas 1871; no occupation (1881 Census); m. 17 Sep 1878 Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Godfrey, Homeland, Isle of Wight.

CLARKE, CHARLES NOEL, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv); b. 7 Feb 1868; adm. (G) 16 Jun 1881; left Jul 1886; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886; BA 1890; adm. solicitor May 1896; in practice at Iquique, Chile, in 1900; 2nd Lieut., Herts Yeomanry (TF) 3 Mar 1915; Lieut., 13 Oct 1915; of Lound Hall, Tuxford, Notts.; m. 29 Apr 1896 Beatrice Mary, dau. of Rev. Christian Mortimer, Rector of Pitchford, Shropshire, and Hon. Canon of Lichfield; d. 15 Dec 1931.

CLARKE, CHARLES LANGTON, eldest son of Rev. James Langton Clarke, Clarendon Square, Leamington, Warwicks., and Frances Mary, dau. of Thomas Elliot Harrison, Whitburn, co. Durham, shipbuilder; b. 30 Oct 1858; adm. (G) 9 Oct 1872; left Aug 1875; emigrated to Canada; lived in Toronto, Ontario; “editor, writer and engineer”; d. 1936.

Clark, Rowland, son of Rowland Clark of Valencia, Spain, and Florence Nassau; b. 15 Aug. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (G); left July 1930; Lond. Stock Exchange 1931-9; RNVR 1940-5 (Lieut.), served Atlantic, Burma, Malaya and Mediterranean; RN 1946 (Lieut.-Cdr Sept. 1950); m. 1936 Margaret Mary Ruth, d. of John Taylor Keightley of Eastbourne; d. 15 Jan. 1975.

Clark, Robert Thomas James Alexander, son of James Stevenson Clark, co. chmn., of Tilehurst, Berks, and Doris Booth, d. of Thomas Hough of Dulwich; b. 11 Apr. 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (G); left July 1955; RN Cadet (E) 1956, Sub-Lieut. 1958, Lieut. May 1960; RN Eng. Coll. 1959, grad. dip. Marine Engineering 1963; Lieut. -Cdr. (E) June 1968, Cdr. Jan. 1977; retd. 1983; m. 1 Apr. 1961 Evelyn Mary, d. of William Petrie Nicholls of Salcombe, Devon; d. 21 Nov. 1996.

Clark, Charles Peter, son of Charles Harold Clark of Clairac, Lot-et-Garonne, France, and Gladys Mary, d. of Rev. James Morell Blackie of Cheltenham; b. 5 June 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (G); left Dec. 1926; man. Charles and William Clark & Co, Clairac; RAFVR 1941 -5 (acting Flt Lieut.), despatches (posth.) June 1945; m. 27 June 1936 Cynthia Loveday, d. of Arnold Leslie Thackhall Browelt, solicitor, of Coventry; killed in action 29 Sept. 1944.

Charles Peter Clark was born on the 5th of June 1909 the son of Charles Harold Clark, a director of a catering company and a prune manufacturer, and Gladys Mary (nee Blackie) Clark of Clairac, Lot-et-Garonne in France and of “Eastwood”, 77, Red Road, Barnet in Hertfordshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1922 to December 1926. He later became the manager of the family firm of Charles and William Clark & Co of Clairac in France. He was married at Leamington, Warwickshire on the 4th of July 1936 to Cynthia Loveday (nee Browett) of Beauchamp Avenue, Leamington Spa. They had a daughter, Caroline, born on the 15th of June 1939.
Following the outbreak of war he returned to England from France where he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and rose to the rank of Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 1st of September 1941, with seniority from the 28th of July 1941. He was promoted to Flying Officer on the 1st of September 1942, with seniority from the 28th of July 1942 and was later promoted to Acting Flight Lieutenant.
He was posted to the Air Ministry in 1943 and joined the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive at Baker Street where he worked in supporting resistance operations in occupied Europe. He was later attached to 161 (Special Duties) Squadron.
Charles Clark took off from Le Bourget, Paris at 1.15pm on the 29th of September 1944 as a passenger in Lysander Mk IIIA V9749 MA-M for a flight to his home base of RAF Tempsford. The aircraft failed to arrive and is thought to have come down into the sea killing all on board.
The passengers and crew were: -
Flight Lieutenant James Alan Lamberton (161 Squadron) (Pilot)
Squadron Leader Anthony Wilfred Alwyne Compton (161 Squadron)
Major John Walter Saunders MBE (Royal Corps of Signals)
Flight Lieutenant Charles Peter Clark (161 Squadron)
He was Mentioned in Despatches, which was announced by the Air Ministry on the 14th of June 1945.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 201.

CLARK, ARTHUR WILLIAM, son of Alfred A. Clark, Westbourne Square, Bayswater, London, varnish and colour manufacturer, and Mary A. --- (1881 Census); b. 23 Jul 1867; adm. (G) 5 Oct 1880; left Dec 1880.

Clark, Arnold Staffurth, son of James Clark, of Streatham, by Eleanor Maria, daughter of Walter Williams, of Brixton Hill; b. Dec. 14, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (G); left Easter 1912; plate glass merchant; served in the Hon. Artillery Company during Great War I and was wounded July 10, 1917, near Ypres; chairman of the Council of the National Sunday School Union since 1934; president 1948-9; hon. treasurer of the Baptist Union since 1935, president 1952; chairman of the British and Foreign Bible Society 1951-62; J. P. (Bucks) 1944; m. June 13, 1931, Zettie, daughter of John Rutherford Halliday, M. D., of Canonbury, London; d. 13 Mar. 1984.

CLABON, WILLIAM MONTAGU ROBERT, only son of John Moxon Clabon, Sevenoaks, Kent, solicitor, and Jane Lewis, dau. of John Alfred Wigan, Clare House, East Malling, Kent; b. 5 Jan 1858; adm. (G) 12 Jun 1868; left Dec 1868; went to Market Bosworth Sch.; at Radley Coll. Mich 1871 - Easter 1876; articled to firm of solicitors, Maidstone, Kent; accidentally killed while getting in to a train at Gravesend Railway Station 15 Jul 1876.

CHILVER, THOMAS FARQUHAR, son of Samuel Chilver, St. James’s, Piccadilly, London, and Jane ---; b. 11 Mar 1805; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1817; Min. Can. 1818; LSA 1826; MRCS 1828; FRCS (hon) 1852; practised in New Burlington Street, London; m. 15 Dec 1829 Lucy Elizabeth, second dau. of Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Bart., MD DCL FRS FRCP, Physician to Queen Adelaide; d. 15 Aug 1874.