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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).

CLAPHAM, ROBERT, son of Richard Clapham, London, whose widow Martha kept a boarding house, first in Dean’s Yard and then at 1 Little Dean’s Yard; b. (at Doncaster, Yorks. ); adm. 26 Sep 1774; KS (aged 15) 1780; Treasurer, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, from 15 Feb 1805; m. Mary, eldest sister of Charles Simpson (qv); d. 17 May 1805. [Perhaps bapt. Marr, Yorks., 16 Oct 1764, son of Richard Clapham, and Martha --- (IGI) (Marr is close to Hemsworth, where his brother Thomas was Master of the GS); note also that a Richard Clapham m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square 15 Dec 1757 Martha Smith]

CLAPHAM, THOMAS, brother of Robert Clapham (qv); b.; adm. 26 Sep 1774; KS (aged 13) 1781; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1786, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1786, aged 18, scholar 19 Apr 1787; BA 1790; MA 1793; Usher at the School, 1792-6; ordained; Vicar of Felkirk, Yorks., 1793; Master, Hemsworth GS, near Pontefract, Yorks., 1796; d. 13 Feb 1801.

CLAPTON, DAVID, son of Thomas Clapton, Great Queen Street, Soho, apothecary, and his second wife Jane Le Sage; b. 17 Jul 1768; adm. 3 Feb 1778; surgeon, Pratt Street, Camden Town, Middlesex; m. Catherine ---; d. 25 Sep 1840.

Clare, Arthur, brother of Charles Henry Clare (qv); b. 7 June 1908; adm. Jan. 1922 (H); left Apr. 1927; Pioneer Corps 1944-5 (Lieut.); Inland Revenue Valuation Office 1947, dep. valuation Officer 1966-73; AAI 1948, FRICS 1970; m. 1st 16 May 1936 Olive Elizabeth, d. of Michael Joseph Synnot of Dublin; 2nd Elizabeth Jane, d. of Tom Dixon Pearson of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham; d. 15 Dec. 1988.

Clare, Charles Henry, son of Charles Clare, of Ealing, Middlesex, by Florence Mabel, daughter of Harry Walter Peal, of Ealing; b. April 27, 1901; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (H); left July 1919. Clare, Geoffrey, brother of Charles Henry Clare (q.v.); b. Aug. 15, 1904; adm. April 26, 1918 (H); left Dec. 1918; Univ. Coll., Reading; farming near Salisbury, Wilts.

Clare, Gustav Arthur, son of A. J. Clare, of Balham, b. June 19, 1901; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (H); left Dec. 1917; d. 17 Apr. 1979.

Clare, Harold, brother of Charles Henry Clare (qv); b. 17 July 1902; adm. Jan. 1916 (H); left July 1920; a farmer near Salisbury, Wilts; m. 17 Oct. 1935 Vera Rose, d. of Samuel Sherwood of Downton, Wilts; d. 4 Apr. 1991.

Clare, Lionel, brother of Charles Henry Clare (qv); b. 22 Mar. 1906; adm. Sept. 1919 (H); left July 1925; Radiation Ltd 1925-59, dep. sales man. 1947; Allied lronfounders (catering equipment) 1959-71, area sales man. SE England; retd 1971; m. 1st 25 Apr. 1931 Olive May, d. of Alfred Rex ofBlackheath; 2nd 20 Jan. 1969 Vera Marion, d. of Walter Fogg of Solihull; 3rd 5 Dec. 1977 Constance, d. of Rosser Pelham Birdsong, fruit importer, of Philadelphia, USA; d. 24 June 1995.