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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).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.