CLEAVER, WILLIAM, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv); b. 24 Mar 1789; adm. 18 Jan 1800; in school lists 1801, May 1803; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse, 1808; BA 1812; MA 1818; Perpetual Curate of Tring, Herts.; Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 16 Jan - Jul 1819; Rector of Delgany, co. Wicklow, 1819-37; m. 22 Feb 1819 Mary, second dau. of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart. (adm. 1778, qv); d. 28 Dec 1860.
Clegg, Hugh Anthony, son of the Rev. John Clegg, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, Head Master of Lowestoft College, by Gertrude, daughter of John Wilson, of Hull; b. June 19, 1900; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1914; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies and Triplett) July 1919, matric. Michaelmas 1919; scholar; 1st class Nat. Sci. Trip., part 1, 1922; B.A. 1922; M.B., B. Ch. 1928; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1925; M.R.C.P. 1929; subeditor of the British Medical Journal 1931, deputy editor 1934, editor 1947; m. Sept. 7, 1932, Kira, daughter of Baron Arthur Engelhardt, of Smolensk, Russia; d. 6 July 1983.
CLELAND, HENRY, brother of John Cleland (qv); bapt. Kingston upon Thames 13 Oct 1711; adm. Apr 1721 (as “Cleavland”); in under school list 1722; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1723, 1724; KS (Capt. ) 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 - void for absence 28 May 1733; see Pope’s letter to Lord Oxford, 3 Nov 1730, asking for “a recommendatory letter” to some worthy man at Ch. Ch. who “would countenance and have an eye” over his friend’s son (Elwin & Courthope, viii, 274-5). [Presumably Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 11 Jun 1730, out of Regt. Feb 1733/4]
CLELAND, JOHN, son of [Col. ?] William Cleland, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Commissioner of Taxes, and Lucy du Pass; bapt. Kingston upon Thames 24 Sep 1710; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1; KS 1722; left 1723; Consul at Smyrna, “very early in life” [but check : this seems unlikely]; in Bombay as soldier 1728; Writer, EICS Bombay 1731; Secretary to Council, Bombay, 1738; left EICS 1740; left India in a destitute condition, and for many years wandered round Europe; author, Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1750; summoned before the Privy Council for writing it, but escaped punishment on pleading his poverty as an excuse; subsequently pensioned by Government, and took to writing for newspapers and the stage; d. 23 Jan 1789. DNB.
Clemence, William Herbert, son of Herbert Clemence, of West Acton, by Caroline Sternberg, daughter of John Ainsworth, of Kensington; b. Feb. 23, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (A); left Easter 1909; a shipbroker's clerk; served with 5th Batt. London Regt. on the western front until he was discharged as medically unfit Feb. 1915.
CLEMENT, JOSEPH; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.
Clements, Arthur Stephen, son of Stephen Henry Clements, of Oxted, Surrey, by Kate. daughter of Arthur Robson, of Bishop's Waltham, Rants; b. June 19, 1904; adm. April 26. 1918 (G); left Easter 1920; a horticulturalist at Kensington, Maryland, U. S. A.; m. July 4, 1927, Eileen, daughter of W. Kearney, of Letchworth, Herts.
CLENT, MILES, second son of Miles Clent, Gloucester; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1637; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1642, adm. pens. 16 May 1642, scholar 1643, matr. Easter 1642; d. 7 Jun 1658.
CLERK, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Right Hon. Sir James Clerk, Bart., PC MP, Vice-Pres. Board of Trade, and Maria Ann, sister of William John Law (qv); b. 17 Jul 1812; adm. (G) 15 Jan 1822; Ensign, 83rd Foot, 9 Jun 1830; Lieut., 11 Jun 1833; 9th Lancers, 24 Dec 1833; retd., 5 May 1837; Private Secretary to father when Vice-Pres. Board of Trade, Feb 1845-6; succ. father as 7th baronet, 23 Dec 1867; m. 26 Jun 1851 Jane Calvert, eldest dau. of Maj. -Gen. Douglas Mercer Henderson (formerly Mercer) CB; d. 17 Nov 1870.
CLERK, JOHN, brother of Sir James Clerk, Bart. (qv); b. 16 Apr 1816; adm. (G) 14 Jan 1828; adm. Inner Temple 16 Apr 1838, called to bar 11 Jun 1841, Bencher from 28 Apr 1868, Treasurer 1885; Home Circuit and Parliamentary bar; QC 22 Feb 1868; JP Leicestershire; author, Practical Treatise on the Law of Elections, 1854, and other works; m. 9 Dec 1845 Rose Alice Clothilde, second dau. of Thomas Greene MP, Whittington Hall, Lancs.; d. 10 Apr 1900.