CLARKE, SIR THOMAS, younger son of Thomas Clarke, St. Giles’s in the Fields, Holborn, carpenter, “whose wife kept a pawnbroker’s shop”; b.; adm. (aged 11) 10 Jan 1714/5; Min. Can. 1716; KS 1717; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1721, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1721, scholar 6 Apr 1722; 2nd in ordo 1724/5; BA 1724/5; MA 1728; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1727, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1728; adm. Gray’s Inn 20 Oct 1727, called to bar 21 Jun 1729; KC 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1742, Bencher 17 May 1754; MP St. Michael’s 1747-54, Lostwithiel 1754-61; Master of the Rolls from 25 May 1754; knighted 25 May 1754; Privy Councillor 21 Jun 1754; FRS 14 Nov 1754; author, Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, 1735 (issued anonymously); d. 13 Nov 1764. DNB.

AUNGIER, FRANCIS, 1ST BARON AUNGIER OF LONGFORD (I), son of Richard Aungier, Cambridge, and Anne, dau. of William Stewart, Cambridge; bapt. 14 May 1558; adm.; QS in 1570; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1573, adm. scholar 1574, matr. Easter 1574; adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Nov 1577, called to bar 17 Jun 1583; QC; Bencher, Gray’s Inn 1602; MP Newcastle-under-Lyme 1588-9, Haslemere Sep 1597 - Feb 1597/8; knighted 28 May 1609; Master of the Rolls (I) from 5 Oct 1609; Privy Councillor (I) by 1611; Joint Lord Keeper (I) Apr - May 1619; created Baron Aungier of Longford (I) 29 Jun 1621; m. 1st, by 1589, Douglas, youngest dau. of Hon. Edward Fitzgerald, and sister of Gerald Fitzgerald, 16th Earl of Kildare (I); m. 2nd, Anne, dau. of Sir George Barne, Kt; m. 3rd, Margaret, widow of Sir John Wynn, Bart., Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and dau. of Sir Thomas Cave, Kt, Stanford, Northants.; d. 8 Oct 1632.