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CHURCHILL, CHARLES, illegitimate son of Lieut. -Gen. Charles Churchill MP, and Anne Oldfield, actress; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1730; left 1730; Grand Tour (Italy) 1735-9; Geneva Univ 1739; Cornet, 8th Dragoons, 6 May 1726; 10th Dragoons, 13 Apr 1732; Lieut., 29 Oct 1736; 2nd Foot Guards, 3 Jan 1738/9; retd Jun 1745; MP Stockbridge 1741-7, Milborne Port 2 Dec 1747-54, Great Marlow 1754-61; Deputy Ranger, St. James and Hyde Parks, 1745 -c. 1751; Searcher in Port of London; of Chalfont House, Bucks.; m. 17 Feb 1745/6 Lady Maria Walpole, Housekeeper of Windsor Castle, illegitimate dau. of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford PC KG, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; d. 13 Apr 1812.

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.

CLEAVER, EUSEBY, brother of John Cleaver (qv); b. 8 Sep 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 – void 10 May 1775 (expiry year of grace as R. Spofforth from 12 May 1774), Tutor 1767-74; BA 1767; MA 1770; BD and DD 1783; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1788; tutor to Earl of Egremont at Christ Church 1767; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1772; Rector of Spofforth, Yorks., 9 May 1774-83; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, 13 Mar 1783-9; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, 5 Apr 1783-9; Prebendary of Chichester 21 Feb 1787 – res by May 1789; Chaplain to Marquis of Buckingham when Lord Lieut. Ireland, 1787-9; consecrated Bishop of Cork and Ross 28 Mar 1789, translated to Ferns and Leighlin 13 Jun 1789; suffered heavy losses during rebellion of 1798, having his palace plundered and his library destroyed; Archbishop of Dublin from 25 Aug 1809; m. 2 May 1788 Catherine, dau. of Right Hon. Owen Wynne PC (I) MP (I), Hazlewood, co. Sligo; d. 10 Dec 1819. DNB.

CLENCH, THOMAS, son of John Clench, Creeting, Suffolk, a Judge of the King’s Bench, and Catherine, dau. of Thomas Almot, Creeting, Suffolk; bapt. 22 Feb 1567/8; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050); adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Oct 1586, called to bar 9 Jun 1594; of Holbrook, Suffolk; High Sheriff, Suffolk, 1616; MP Suffolk Dec 1620 - Feb 1621/2; m. 1st, Margery, dau. of John Barker, Ipswich, Suffolk; m. 2nd, Elizabeth, widow of Henry Wingfield, Crowfield, Suffolk, and dau. of Thomas Risby, Lavenham, Suffolk; m. 3rd, Ann, widow of Sir Anthony Wingfield, Kt., Hoo, Suffolk, and dau. of William Birde, London; buried 10 Nov 1624.

CLEVLAND, JOHN, eldest son of Capt. William Clevland RN, Commissioner of the Navy, and Anne, dau. of John Davie, Orleigh, Devon; b.; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1718; in under school list 1721; adm. Middle Temple 1 Feb 1722/3 [check]; a clerk in Navy Office c. 1723-31; Clerk of the Cheque, Plymouth, 1731-43; a Commissioner of the Navy 1743-6; Second Secretary to the Admiralty, 4 Aug 1746 - 1 May 1751, First Secretary from 1 May 1751; MP Saltash 1741 - Mar 1743, Sandwich 1747-61, Saltash from 1761; m. 1st, 28 Jun 1728 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Caesar Child, Bart.; m. 2nd, 1747 Sarah, dau. of Charles Shuckburgh, Longborough, Gloucs.; d. 19 Jun 1763.

CLIVE, HENRY, third son of George Clive MP, Whitfield, Herefs., and Arlington Street, Westminster, and Sydney, dau. of Thomas Bolton, Knock, co. Louth; b.; at school 1791 (Clapham); still at school 1794; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1795, aged 17; BA 1798; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1794, called to bar 29 Jan 1802; Oxford circuit; MP Ludlow 1807-18, Montgomery 1818-32; Under-Secretary of State, Home Office Apr 1818 - Jan 1822; m. 27 Nov 1809 Charlotte Jane, sister of John Buller (qv); d. 16 Mar 1848.

CLUTTERBUCK, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Clutterbuck, Ingatestone, Essex, and Bridget, widow of Sir John Sudbury, Bart. (qv), and dau. of Sir Thomas Exton LLD, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery; half-brother of George Carteret (qv); bapt. Ingatestone, Essex 8 Jul 1697 (IGI); at school under Knipe (Steward of Anniversary Dinner, c. 1742); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1713, aged 16; adm. Middle Temple 28 Nov 1713; MP Liskeard 2 Nov 1722-34, Plympton from 1734; Chief Secretary for Ireland May 1724 - Jun 1730; Privy Councillor (I) 1724; MP (I) Lisburn from 1725; a Lord of the Admiralty 1732-41, of the Treasury 1741-2; Treasurer of the Navy from 12 May 1742; Privy Councillor 14 Jun 1742; m. 4 May 1731 Lady Henrietta Tollemache, sister of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (qv); d. 23 Nov 1742.

COCKS, JOHN SOMERS, 1ST EARL SOMERS, elder son of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers, Clerk of the Ordnance, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Eliot MP, Port Eliot, Cornwall; b. 6 May 1760; adm. 13 Jan 1774; left 1777; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1778; MP West Looe 20 Feb 1782-4, Grampound 1784-90, Reigate 1790 - 30 Jan 1806; succ. father as 2nd Baron Somers 30 Jan 1806; Lord Lieut., Herefordshire, from 28 Oct 1817; cr. Earl Somers 17 Jul 1821; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; m. 1st, 19 Mar 1785 Margaret, only dau. of Rev. Treadway Russell Nash DD, and niece of Richard Treadway Nash (qv); m. 2nd, 3 Jun 1834 his cousin Jane, widow of Rev. George Waddington, Rector of Northwold, Norfolk, and dau. of James Cocks, banker, London; d. 5 Jan 1841.

COCKS, THOMAS SOMERS, eldest son of Thomas Somers Cocks (b. 1781, qv); b. 5 Feb 1815; adm. 14 Apr 1828 (Stikeman's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1832; MP Reigate 1847-57; banker, firm Cocks Biddulph & Co, Charing Cross, London; DL Lincs., JP (1860) Bucks., JP Middlesex; m. 24 May 1842 Sarah Louisa, dau. of Charles Wynne Griffith-Wynne (qv); d. 30 Aug 1899.

CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM, BART., eldest son of Sir William Codrington, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Bethell, Swinton and Ellerton, Yorks.; b. 26 Oct 1719; adm. Jan 1735/6 (Hawkins'); left 1737 (sic); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Dec 1736; succ. as 2nd baronet 17 Dec 1738; Grand Tour (in Italy 1742); of Dodington, Gloucs.; Lieut. -Col., South Gloucestershire Militia (occurs as such 1774); [?Gentleman of Privy Chamber to King George II (check)]; MP Beverley 1747-61, Tewkesbury from 1761; m. 22 Feb 1735/6 Anne Acton, Fulham, Middlesex; d. 11 Mar 1792.