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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, JAMES, brother of Joseph Clarke (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1721 (as Clark); in under school list 1725; d. 26 Nov 1726.

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, 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.