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.

CLEMENT, JOSEPH; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.

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, 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.

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

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.

CLIFTON, BENJAMIN, brother of James Maillard Clifton (qv); b. 3 Jul 1776; adm. 11 Apr 1785; KS (aged 14) 1789; a physician at St. Kitts, West Indies.

CLIFTON, JAMES MAILLARD, son of Benjamin Clifton MD, St. Kitts, West Indies; b. 3 Jul 1772; adm. 7 Apr 1785; KS 1786; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790, scholar 1791, matr. 1790; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Nov 1788; Ensign, 38th Foot, 29 Apr 1797; Lieut., 47th Foot, 22 Sep 1797; Capt., 1st West India Regt., 21 Feb 1801; Maj., 4 Apr 1808; Lieut. -Col., 13 May 1813; retd. 24 Dec 1818.