CLARKE, GABRIEL, son of John Clarke, Clothall, Herts., yeoman; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, Westminster Student to 1618/9, matr. 21 Feb 1605/6, aged 17; BA 1609; MA 1612 (incorp. Camb. 1616); BD (from Pembroke Hall) 1630; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln from 26 May 1615; Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, 1616; Rector of Howick, Northumberland, 1619-21; Archdeacon of Northumberland, 7 Aug 1619 – Sep 1620; Prebendary of Durham from 4 Aug 1620; Archdeacon of Durham from 9 Sep 1620; Rector of Elwick, Durham, 6 Sep 1620 – Jul 1624; Master of Greatham Hospital, Durham, 24 Jul 1624; deprived of preferments by 17 Sep 1644, but reinstated at the Restoration; Proctor in Convocation, 1661; m. (by 1624) Mildred, dau. of William Neile, and niece of Richard Neile (qv); d. 10 May 1662.

CLARKE, HENRY HARCOURT HYDE, son of (Henry) Hyde Clarke, St. George’s Square, London, company secretary, and Maria Mildred --- (1881 Census); b. 29 May 1852; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1866; Min. Can. 1867; left Whitsun 1868; no occupation (1881 Census); m. 2 Jun 1888 Louisa Christine Dorothea, second dau. of Herman Dirs Mertens, Streete Court, Westgate, Kent, landowner; d. c. 1904.

CLARKE, HENRY TREVISA, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv); b. 4 Jan 1864; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1877; QS 1878; left Dec 1881; a shipbuilder; member Inst. Naval Architects 1887; District Superintendent, Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing, North-West Ireland, Ministry of Shipping, 1916-9; m. 24 Apr 1894 Margaret Evelyn, second dau. of William Henry Sale, The Uplands, Derby.

Clarke, Hugh Geoffrey, brother of Ronald Edwin Clarke (gv); b. 22 Mar. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (R); left July 1933; Army gen. list 1943-5 (Maj.); adm. a solicitor June 1946; practised in Forest Hill and West Norwood 1948-75, retd 1975; m. 1st 23 Feb. 1940 Irene Vivienne, d. of Bernard John Wilden-Hart; 2nd 29 Oct. 1960 Muriel Joan Luscombe.

Clarke, John Harwood, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (q.v.); b. Sept. 3, 1870; adm. as Q.S. June 12, 1884; left July 1889; Durham Coll. of Science; an engineer; was manager, Sir James Laing and Sons, shipbuilders, Sunderland, 1902-8; m. April 24, 1902, Ethel Fanny Stone, daughter of Walter Sprott, of Mayfield, Sussex; d. Feb. 11, 1948.

Clarke, John Hugh Leigh, son of the Rev. William Jones Clarke, Curate of Wimbledon, Surrey; b. July 10, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); left Dec. 1917; d. 14 Apr. 1978.

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, 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.