CLARKE, GABRIEL, son of John Clarke, Clothall, Herts., yeoman; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, Westminster Student to 1618/9, matr. 21 Feb 1605/6, aged 17; BA 1609; MA 1612 (incorp. Camb. 1616); BD (from Pembroke Hall) 1630; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln from 26 May 1615; Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, 1616; Rector of Howick, Northumberland, 1619-21; Archdeacon of Northumberland, 7 Aug 1619 – Sep 1620; Prebendary of Durham from 4 Aug 1620; Archdeacon of Durham from 9 Sep 1620; Rector of Elwick, Durham, 6 Sep 1620 – Jul 1624; Master of Greatham Hospital, Durham, 24 Jul 1624; deprived of preferments by 17 Sep 1644, but reinstated at the Restoration; Proctor in Convocation, 1661; m. (by 1624) Mildred, dau. of William Neile, and niece of Richard Neile (qv); d. 10 May 1662.

CLARKE, FRANCIS RICHARD, son of Frederic Führmann Clarke, Aldridge Lodge, Walsall, Staffs., solicitor, and Lucy Annette, second dau. of Francis Booth MD MRCP, Gower Street, London; nephew of Nathaniel Garnett Clarke (qv); b. 12 Apr 1860; adm. (G) 14 Oct 1872; QS Dec 1875; left May 1879; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 31 May 1879; BA 1883; MA 1886; adm. solicitor Jan 1887; practised at Walsall; Registrar, Walsall County Court; m. 7 Apr 1888 Ellen Maud, dau. of Clement Satterthwaite, Bromley, Kent, stockbroker; d. 17 Sep 1927.

CLAPHAM, THOMAS, brother of Robert Clapham (qv); b.; adm. 26 Sep 1774; KS (aged 13) 1781; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1786, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1786, aged 18, scholar 19 Apr 1787; BA 1790; MA 1793; Usher at the School, 1792-6; ordained; Vicar of Felkirk, Yorks., 1793; Master, Hemsworth GS, near Pontefract, Yorks., 1796; d. 13 Feb 1801.

CLAPHAM, ROBERT, son of Richard Clapham, London, whose widow Martha kept a boarding house, first in Dean’s Yard and then at 1 Little Dean’s Yard; b. (at Doncaster, Yorks. ); adm. 26 Sep 1774; KS (aged 15) 1780; Treasurer, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, from 15 Feb 1805; m. Mary, eldest sister of Charles Simpson (qv); d. 17 May 1805. [Perhaps bapt. Marr, Yorks., 16 Oct 1764, son of Richard Clapham, and Martha --- (IGI) (Marr is close to Hemsworth, where his brother Thomas was Master of the GS); note also that a Richard Clapham m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square 15 Dec 1757 Martha Smith]

CLAPCOTT, HENRY, son of George Bunter Clapcott, Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, and Eliza, dau. of Rev. James Dowland DD, Whitchurch, Dorset; b. 28 Nov 1830; adm. 12 Jan 1844 (Scott's); QS 1845; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1849, adm. pens. 19 May 1849, scholar 1850, matr. Mich. 1849; BA 1853; emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he took up sheep farming; JP New Zealand; m. 8 Dec 1858 Mary Jane, second dau. of Maj. --- Power, 60th Foot.

CIRCUITT, RICHARD WILLIAM PERRY, son of George James Circuitt, Woburn, Beds., and Mary Porter (IGI); b. 3 Oct 1846; adm. 27 Jan 1859; QS 3 Oct 1861; left Whitsun 1865; King’s Coll. London, AKC 1869; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1871 (both Winchester); held several curacies 1869-78; Vicar of Cholsey, Berks., 1878-85; Rector of St. Luke’s, Heywood, Lancs., 1885-1900; Vicar of Brixham with Churston Ferrers, Devon, from 1900; m. (by 1881) Sally A. --- (1881 Census); d. 26 Sep 1920.

CIRCUITT, GEORGE JOSEPH, brother of Robert William Perry Circuitt (qv); b. 5 Dec 1847; adm. 23 Jun 1859; QS 1862; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1866, but never adm.; d. Sep 1870.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, youngest son of John Churchill, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1717/8; KS 1723; left 1725; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Mar 1725/6, matr. 1726; adm. Inner Temple 17 Jan 1723/4; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1732, priest 19 Feb 132/3 (both London); Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, from 1733; Vicar of Rainham, Essex, from 31 Mar 1742; m.; d. 7 Sep 1758. [Presumably Charles Churchill, son of John Churchill, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Sep 1708 (IGI)]

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. Feb 1731/2; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1745; left 1748 [or 1747 ?]; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1748; ordained deacon (Wells) 22 Sep 1754, priest (Rochester for London) 19 Dec 1756; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8; Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758-63; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv); William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10); for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335; his collected works were published in two volumes, 1763-4; m. c. 1749 Martha Scott, Westminster; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. DNB.

CHURCH, RALPH, brother of John Church (qv); b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1716 [“probably a chorister”]; KS (aged 13) 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 - void 26 Nov 1736 (expiry year of grace as V. Pyrton), Tutor 1729-31; BA 1727; MA 1732; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1733, priest 4 Jun 1734 (both Oxford); Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1735; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, from 14 Nov 1748; edited Spenser’s Faery Queen, 1738; d. Apr 1787. DNB.