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CLARKE, STEPHEN HARDCASTLE, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv); b. 19 May 1865; adm. QS 12 Jun 1879; left May 1884; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1884, exhibitioner 1884; BA 1888; MA 1891; adm. solicitor Aug 1899; in practice at Sunderland; m. 7 Aug 1902 Paula, eldest dau. of Francis Ford Freeman, Tavistock, Devon; d. 26 Aug 1928.

CLARKE, THOMAS, son of Rev. Thomas Clarke, Rector of Fitz, Shropshire, and Catherine Blease, St. Alkmund’s, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; b. 28 Mar 1707; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1719/20; in under school list 1721; Min. Can. 1723; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 May 1725; buried at Fitz 27 Feb 1727/8.

CLARKE, SIR THOMAS, younger son of Thomas Clarke, St. Giles’s in the Fields, Holborn, carpenter, “whose wife kept a pawnbroker’s shop”; b.; adm. (aged 11) 10 Jan 1714/5; Min. Can. 1716; KS 1717; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1721, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1721, scholar 6 Apr 1722; 2nd in ordo 1724/5; BA 1724/5; MA 1728; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1727, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1728; adm. Gray’s Inn 20 Oct 1727, called to bar 21 Jun 1729; KC 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1742, Bencher 17 May 1754; MP St. Michael’s 1747-54, Lostwithiel 1754-61; Master of the Rolls from 25 May 1754; knighted 25 May 1754; Privy Councillor 21 Jun 1754; FRS 14 Nov 1754; author, Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, 1735 (issued anonymously); d. 13 Nov 1764. DNB.

CLARKE, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1736 (Armfeild's); left 1742.

CLARKE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627, matr. Easter 1629; BA 1630/1.

Clark-Kennedy, Alexander Kenelm, brother of William Hew Clark-Kennedy (q.v.); b. Dec. 18, 1883; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (A); left July 1902; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1902; B.A. 1905; one of H. M. Inspectors of Factories July 31, 1906; acted as secretary to the Employ ment of Children Act 1909; 1st division clerk in the Home Office. Jan. 15, 1912, but was reappointed an Inspector of Factories Aug. 13, 1912; hon. sec. of the Elizabethan Club 1912-3; 2nd Lieut. the Galloway Rifles (afterwards known as the 5th Batt. of the King's Own Scottish Borderers) Oct. 19, 1906; Lieut. Aug. 20, 1907; Capt. July 12, 1915; went out to Gallipoli in May 1915; invalided home in Oct. 1915; joined his batt. in Egypt April 1916; killed in action near Gaza, Palestine, April 19, 1917; unm.

Clark-Kennedy, Archibald Douglas Hewitt, brother of William Hew Clark-Kennedy (q.v.); b. July 30, 1888; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left Dec. 1903; a clerk in the Standard Life Assurance Company's office in Edinburgh and afterwards at Bombay; returned from India in 1914 and entered the Law Union and Rock Assurance Company's Office in London; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. Royal Scots Fusiliers; Lieut. July 12, 1915; temp. Capt. Sept. 18, 1915, Capt. Jan. 18, 1916; joined the Gallipoli expedition May 1915, and was invalided to Cyprus; returned to Gallipoli and afterwards served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine, where he commanded an armoured train in 1917; was transferred with his regt. to the western front in April 1918; mentioned in despatches; killed in action in France Sept. 18, 1918; unm.

Clark-Kennedy, Leopold James, brother of William Hew Clark-Kennedy (q.v.); b. March 27, 1881; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (H); left May 1895; readm. Jan. 16, 1896; left May 1897; d. July 1, 1932.

Clark-Kennedy, William Hew, second son of Capt. Alexander William Maxwell Clark­ Kennedy, of Knockgray, Galloway, by the Hon. Lettice Lucy Hewitt, third daughter of James, 4th Viscount Lifford; b. March 3, 1879; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (A); left July 1896; served in Paget's Horse during the South African War 1899-1901, and was mentioned in despatches; became asst. manager of the Standard Life Assurance Co. in Montreal and later a director; chairman of the Guardian Insurance Co. of Canada 1943; joined the Black Watch 1905; Major 1915; served in France in Great War I; reported killed at St. Julien 1915; Lieut.-Col. Dec. 30, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 14, 1916, bar Jan. 11, 1919; C.M.G. June 3, 1918; V. C. Dec. 14, 1918, for his gallantry when seriously wounded in the advance on the Fresnoy-Rouvroy line; Croix de Guerre 1915; m. Sept. 5, 1914, Kate, younger daughter of Robert Reford, of Montreal; d. Oct. 26, 1961.

CLARKSON, CHARLES JAMES PALMER, son of William Clarkson (adm. 1810, qv); b. 1 Aug 1836; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1846.