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CLERK, SAMUEL, son of Christopher Clerk, London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1657, adm. pens. 22 May 1657, scholar 1658, but did not matr. [Perhaps ordained priest 15 Jan 1662/3 (Chichester), as Clerke].

CLERKE, EDMUND, son of Edmund Clerke, Hungerford Park, Berks.; bapt. Hungerford, Berks. 10 Apr 1678 (IGI, sic); adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1697, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1697, aged 17, scholar 6 May 1698, matr. 1697.

CLERKE, FRANCIS, only son of Francis Carr Clerke MP, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire, and Catherine, sister of Charles Montagu Bertie (qv); b. 23 Sep 1724; adm. Sep 1735 (Playford's); left 1742; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 May 1742, MA 21 Aug 1745; High Sheriff, Oxfordshire 1750; m. 3 Mar 1746/7 Susanna Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Henry Ashhurst, Waterstock, Oxfordshire, Vice-Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, Recorder of Liverpool and Wigan; d. 30 Apr 1760.

CLETHERALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

Cleveland-Stevens, Edward Carnegie, brother of William Cleveland-Stevens (q.v.); b. Feb. 3, 1883; adm. Jan. 17, 1895 (H); migrated up Grant's Sept. 1895; left July 1901; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1903; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1912; Bernard Shaw Student, London School of Economics; D.Sc. (Econ.) London Univ. 1915; acting Capt. R.E. April 10, 1917: served in Egypt 1915-7, and France 1917-9; secretary of Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd.; m. June 13, 1918, Muriel, only daughter of James Dickie Christie, of Sidcup, Kent; d. May 15, 1962.

Cleveland-Stevens, Robert Victor Carnegie, brother of William Herbert Carnegie Cleveland­ Stevens (qv); b. 12 July 1919; adm. May 1933 (G); left July 1938; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1938, BA 1941, MA 1955; Welsh Guards 1942-6 (Capt.), C.in C.'s Cert. for Gallantry 1945 (N. Europe); called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) Nov. 1949; dir. Pan-Ocean Ltd 1957, Port Madoc (France) 1964-.

Cleveland-Stevens, William Herbert Carnegie, son of William Cleveland-Stevens (qv); b. 21 Oct. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (G); left July 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1941; attached Roy. Warks Regt in WW2 (Interrogator), wounded (Normandy) July 1944; called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) Nov. 1948; Colonial Legal Service 1953-5, dep. registrar High Court ofJustice, N. Rhodesia; legal asst Daily Express 1959-61; m. 31 Oct. 1941 Phyllis Mary, d. of Herbert Middleton, chemist; d. 8 Jan. 1995.

Cleveland-Stevens, William, elder son of William Richard Stevens, of Westminster, solicitor: b. Oct. 21, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894; Q.S. 1895; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1899; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1901; B.A. 1904; B.C. L. 1907; M.A. 1907; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn June 12, 1907; equity draftsman and conveyancer; served in Great War I; Lieut. R. N. V. R. mentioned in despatches; K.C. 1930; a bencher of Lincoln's Inn 1935; Chancellor of the diocese of Birmingham 1937, of Truro 1940, of Gloucester 1946; Director of Legal Education to the Council of Legal Education 1939; Deputy Chairman of the Enemy Export Committee 1939, and of the Contraband Committee 1940; Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn 1955; C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1953; m. Jan. 6, 1914, Ann Felicia, third daughter of Alphonse Henry Strauss, of London; d. June 10, 1957.

CLIFFORD, MARTIN; b.; KS (Capt. ); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, adm. scholar 1641, matr. 1640; a buffoon about the Court, 1660; employed by the Duke of Buckingham in producing The Rehearsal (together with Samuel Butler and Thomas Sprat); attacked John Dryden (qv) in a series of letters; Master of the Charterhouse from 1671; author, A Treatise of Human Reason, 1674; d. 10 Dec 1677. DNB.

Clift, Frederick Hollocombe, son of Frederick Clift, of Norwood, Surrey, solicitor; b. Sept. 28, 1874; adm. April 29, 1886 (G); left April 1888.