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CLANMORRIS, JOHN CHARLES ROBERT BINGHAM, 4 Baron (_eld. son of Denis
Arthur Bingham, 3 Baron Clanmorris 1808–47_). _b._ Moyode castle,
co. Galway 28 Nov. 1826; ed. at Rugby; succeeded his father 24
Feb. 1847. _d._ at his seat in West of Ireland 5 April 1876.

CLANRICARDE, ULICK JOHN DE-BURGH, 1 Marquis of (_only son of 13 Earl
of Clanricarde 1744–1808_). _b._ Belmont, Hants. 20 or 28 Dec.
1802; succeeded as 14 Earl 27 July 1808; created a marquis in
peerage of Ireland 6 Oct. 1825; created Baron Somerhill in peerage
of the U.K. 13 June 1826; under sec. of state for foreign affairs
2 Jany. 1826 to 17 Aug. 1827; captain of yeomen of the guard 1
Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1834; P.C. 1 Dec. 1830; lord lieut. of Galway
1831; K.P. 7 Oct. 1831; colonel of Galway militia 1 Jany. 1838,
hon. colonel 12 Feb. 1873 to death; ambassador at St. Petersburgh
6 Oct. 1838 to 28 March 1840; postmaster general 7 July 1846 to 27
Dec. 1852; lord privy seal 3 Feb. 1858 to 26 Feb. 1858. _d._ 17
Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 10 April 1874. _bur._ Portumna,
Galway. _Baily’s Mag. xi_, 333–7 (1866), _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_,
332, (1844), _portrait_; _Graphic ix_, 433 (1874), _portrait_.

CLANWILLIAM, RICHARD CHARLES FRANCIS MEADE, 3 Earl of (_elder son of
Richard Meade, 2 Earl of Clanwilliam 1766–1805_). _b._ 15 Aug.
1795; succeeded 3 Sep. 1805; private sec. to Marquess of
Londonderry 5 Jan. 1817 to 11 July 1819; under sec. of state for
foreign affairs 22 Jan. 1822 to 12 Aug. 1822; envoy extraord. and
minister plenipo. at Berlin 1 Feb. 1823 to 25 Dec. 1827; G.C.H.
1826; created a peer of the U.K. by title of Baron Clanwilliam of
Clanwilliam, co. Tipperary 28 Jany. 1828; created D.C.L. Ox. 11
June 1834. _d._ 32 Belgrave square, London 7 Oct. 1879. Personalty
sworn under £250,000 Jany. 1880.

CLAPHAM, ROBERT CALVERT (_son of Anthony Clapham, who established
soda and alkali works on the Tyne_). _b._ Newcastle 15 Sep. 1823;
manager of the Walker alkali works; chief founder of Newcastle
Chemical society 1868, pres. 1878; sec. of Newcastle literary and
philosophical society 21 years; M.I.M.E. 1869; F.C.S.; author of
the article on Soda in _Chemistry as applied to arts and
manufactures_. _d._ Winchelsea 22 Dec. 1881. _Proc. of Instit. of
Mechanical Engineers_ (1882) 2–3.

CLAPHAM, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1796; colonel 47 Madras N.I. 5
April 1831 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Widcombe house, Bath
29 Aug. 1851 aged 70.

CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 2 Earl of (_elder son of John Fitzgibbon, 1
Earl of Clare 1749–1802, lord chancellor of Ireland_), _b._ 10
June 1792; succeeded as 2 Earl 28 Jany. 1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; lord lieutenant of Limerick; governor of
Bombay, Aug. 1830 to 17 March 1835, took his seat 21 March 1831;
P.C. 25 Aug. 1830; G.C.H. 1835; K.P. 17 Sep. 1845. _d._ Brighton
18 Aug. 1851.

CLARE, RICHARD HOBART FITZGIBBON, 3 Earl of (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Dublin 2 Oct. 1793; registrar of affidavits in
Irish court of Chancery 1797–1836 when office was abolished;
ensign 1 foot guards 18 Aug. 1808; captain 2 Ceylon regiment
1811–14; M.P. for co. Limerick 1818–41; lord lieut. of Limerick
1851; succeeded as 3 Earl 18 Aug. 1851. _d._ Kensington palace
gardens, London 10 Jany. 1864.

CLARE, JOHN (_son of Parker Clare of Helpstone near Stamford,
labourer_). _b._ Helpstone 13 July 1793; cottage farmer at
Helpstone 1827–32, at Northborough 1832–7; confined at High Beech
private lunatic asylum, Epping Forest 1837–41, at county asylum,
Northampton 1841 to death; author of _Poems descriptive of rural
life and scenery_ 1821; _The village minstrel and other poems 2
vols._ 1821; _The rural muse_ 1835. _d._ Northampton asylum 20 May
1864. _bur._ Helpstone 25 May. _F. Martin’s Life of J. Clare_
1865; _J. L. Cherry’s Life of J. Clare_ 1873; _M. R. Mitford’s
Recollections of a literary life_ (1859) 103–14; _J. Clare’s
Village Minstrel vol._ 1 (1821), _portrait_.

CLARE, JOHN. Nautical inventor; one of the persons who suggested
protection of war vessels by means of iron plates; made a claim on
the Government for a sum of about a million for compensation,
which claim was rejected; author of _Mechanical defects of things
resembling iron ships, but constructed upon the tin-pot principle_
1856; _Life preserving ships hydrodynamically developed upon
metallic principles_ 1868. _d._ 1 West bank road, Liverpool 12
Oct. 1885 aged 65.

CLARE, PETER (_son of Peter Clare of Manchester, clockmaker, who d.
30 July 1799_). _b._ Manchester 1781; member of Manchester
literary and philosophical society 1810, sec. 1821–42; F.R.A.S.
1841; a zealous member of Anti-slavery committee. _d._ Manchester
24 Nov. 1851. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xii_, 89–90
(1852).

CLARENDON, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4 Earl of (_eld. son
of hon. George Villiers 1759–1827_). _b._ London 12 Jany. 1800;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; attaché of embassy at St. Petersburg
1820–23; a comr. of the Excise 1823–33; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. to Madrid 16 Aug. 1833 to 18 Oct. 1839; G.C.B. 19 Oct.
1837; succeeded his uncle as 4 Earl 22 Dec. 1838; P.C. 3 Jany.
1840; lord keeper of privy seal 15 Jany. 1840 to 3 Sep. 1841;
chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Oct. 1840 to 23 June 1841 and
7 April 1864 to Nov. 1865; pres. of board of trade 6 July 1846 to
22 July 1847; lord lieut. of Ireland 20 May 1847 to 2 March 1852;
grand master of order of St. Patrick 26 May 1847 to 1852; K.G. 23
March 1849; sec. of state for foreign department 21 Feb. 1853 to
26 Feb. 1858, 3 Nov. 1865 to 5 July 1866 and 9 Dec. 1868 to death;
ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to congress of Paris 15 Feb. to
April 1856; ambassador extraord. at coronation of King Wm. i of
Prussia 2 Oct. 1861; chancellor of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 8 Oct.
1864. _d._ 1 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 June 1870. _bur._ at
Watford, Herts. 1 July. _W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France
and England, New York_ (1863) 157–61; _Men of the time, British
Statesmen_ (1854) 287–317; _D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties_
(1859) 136–53; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 454–58 (1854);
_Macmillan’s mag. xxii_, 292–6 (1870); _St. James’s mag. Feb. 1870
pp._ 676–85, _portrait_; _The British cabinet in 1853 pp._
287–317.

CLARGES, SIR RICHARD GODDARD (_2 son of Rev. James Hare of Stratton,
Wilts._) _b._ Chingford hall, Essex; ed. at Rugby, entered at
Oxford but never resided; lieut. 30 foot 6 July 1796; major 12
foot 1 July 1813 to 27 Aug. 1825 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73
foot 18 May 1849 to 29 July 1852; colonel 12 foot 29 July 1852 to
death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; served in Egypt, Hanover, Spain and the
Peninsula; assumed surname of Clarges 18 June 1844; C.B. 4 June
1815; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856. _d._ Bitchfield near Grantham 13 April
1857.

CLARIDGE, SIR JOHN THOMAS (_eld. son of John Fellowes Claridge of
Sevenoaks, Kent_). _b._ 1792; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A.
1813, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1818; recorder of Prince of
Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca 30 Sep. 1825 to 1829; knighted
at Windsor Castle 30 Sep. 1825. _d._ Stoke villa, Leamington 20
June 1868.

CLARIDGE, WILLIAM. Succeeded James Edward Mivart (who _d._ 5 Jany.
1856 aged 75) as owner of Mivart’s hotel, Brook st. Hanover sq.
London 1851 the hotel par excellence for princes and foreign
ambassadors; sold the hotel to a company for £60,000 March 1881.
_d._ Cragthorne, Grove park, Kent 12 April 1882 aged 68.

CLARINA, EYRE MASSEY, 3 Baron. _b._ Cork 6 May 1798; succeeded Jany.
1810; a representative peer for Ireland 16 April 1849 to death.
_d._ Elm park, Clarina, co. Limerick 18 Nov. 1872.

CLARIS, JOHN CHALK (_son of Mr. Claris of Canterbury, bookseller_).
_b._ Canterbury about 1797; edited the _Kent Herald_ 1826–65;
published under pseudonym of Arthur Brooke following poetical
works; _Juvenile Pieces_ 1816; _Poems_ 1817; _Durovernum, The
curse of Chatterton and other poems_ 1818; _Thoughts and feelings_
1820; _Retrospection (with portrait)_ 1821; _Elegy on the death of
Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 1822. _d._ Best lane, Canterbury 10 Jany.
1866. _Notes and Queries, Fourth series_, _x_, 29, 95 (1872).

CLARK, BRACY. _b._ Chipping Norton, Oxon 7 April 1771; a veterinary
surgeon in London 1800; F.L.S. 15 Jany. 1793; author of _An essay
on the bots of horses and other animals_ 1815; _Hippodonomia, or
the true structure laws and economy of the horse’s foot_ 1829;
_Treatise on the bits of horses_, _2 ed._ 1835; and many other
small books on veterinary subjects. _d._ Giltspur st. London 16
Dec. 1860. _Proc. of Linnæan Society_ (1861) 21–4; _J. Smith’s
Catalogue of Friends’ books i_, 417–22 (1867).

CLARK, CHARLES. _b._ Heybridge, Maldon, Essex 1806; lived at Great
Totham hall near Witham where he composed and printed with his own
hands numerous broadsides consisting chiefly of satirical songs
and parodies; printed _A history of the parish of Great Totham by
G. W. Johnson_ 1831; contributed to the _Literary Gazette_,
_Family Herald_ and _Sportsman_. _d._ of heart disease at
Heybridge 21 March 1880. _W. T. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s Manual
by H. G. Bohn iv, appendix pp._ 216–17 (1864).

CLARK, CHARLES. Barrister M.T. 21 May 1830; official reporter to
House of Lords 1840; secretary to Channel Islands’ criminal law
commission 1846; revising barrister for South Essex 1863–4, for
Herts 1864–73; sec. to Juridical Society 1855–8; bencher of his
inn 15 Jany. 1872; Q.C. 9 Feb. 1874; author of _A summary of
colonial law_ 1834; _House of Lords cases 11 vols._ 1849–66;
author with Patrick Dow of _Reports in the House of Lords 2 vols._
1827–32, with William Finnelly of _Reports in the House of Lords
12 vols._ 1835–47. _d._ 10 Albert road, Regent’s park, London 28
June 1881.

CLARK, EDWARD RAWSON. _b._ Yorkshire; employed at Crockford’s, St.
James’s st. London; kept a racing stud from about 1834; a finance
agent in London to 1856; a member of Tattersall’s 52 years;
commonly known as D’Orsay Clark. _d._ 147 Church st. Chelsea 12
April 1885 aged 81. _Sporting Review xl_, 434–7, (1858); _Sporting
Times 2 May 1885 p._ 5.

CLARK, FRANCIS WILLIAM (_eld. son of Francis Wm. Clark of
Kilpatrick, Argyllshire_). _b._ Stirling 1827; ed. at Stirling gr.
sch. and Univ. of Edin., hon. LLD. 1877; advocate 1851; sheriff
substitute for Glasgow 1867–76; sheriff of Lanarkshire 1876 to
death; author of _A treatise on the law of partnership and
joint-stock companies according to the law of Scotland_ 1866. _d._
Kelvinside, Glasgow 19 Nov. 1886.

CLARK, REV. FREDERICK SCOTSON (_eld. son of Michael Clark of
Southwark, London_). _b._ Southwark 16 Nov. 1840; organist of
Regent Square church, London 1854; studied at Royal academy of
music; founded the London Organ school 1865; matriculated from
Exeter coll. Ox. 13 Oct. 1865; organist of Ex. coll. 1865–7; Mus.
Bac. 1867; head master of St. Michael’s gr. sch. Brighton 1867; C.
of St. Michael’s, Lewes 1868–9; assistant chaplain at Stuttgart
1870–4, at Amsterdam 1874–8; chaplain at Paris 1879; the English
official representative organist at Paris Exhibition 1878 when he
was awarded a gold medal; composed many pieces for the organ,
harmonium and piano. _d._ the London organ school 3 Prince’s st.
Cavendish sq. 5 July 1883.

CLARK, VENERABLE GEORGE. Educ. at Univ. coll. Ox., Bennett scholar,
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; C. of Alton, Hants 1835–42; C. of Tawstock,
Devon 1843–5; V. of Cantley, Yorkshire 1845–54; preb. of Hereford
12 Dec. 1848 to death; R. of Tenby 1854–67; archdeacon of St.
David’s 21 Jany. 1864 to death. _d._ Lampeter Velfrey rectory 11
Dec. 1874.

CLARK, GEORGE AITKEN (_son of John Clark of Paisley, thread
manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 9 Aug. 1823; shawl manufacturer with
Robert and John Ronald at Paisley to 1851; started with Peter Kerr
a thread business at Linside Mill, Paisley 1851; established a
branch factory at Newark, New Jersey 1864; bequeathed £20,000 for
erection of a town hall at Paisley which was opened 30 Jany. 1882,
and £20,000 to found 4 scholarships of £300 a year each, tenable
for 3 years in Glasgow Univ. _d._ Newark 13 Feb. 1873. _The
inauguration of the George A. Clark town hall, Paisley_ 1882,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_, 133 (1882).

CLARK, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (_son of David Clark of Findlater, who
d. 15 Aug. 1836_). _b._ Findlater 14 Dec. 1788; ed. at Fordyce gr.
sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1809; assistant
surgeon R.N. 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1817;
physician at Rome 1819–26, in London 1826–60; L.R.C.P. 26 June
1826; F.R.S. 7 April 1832; first phys. in ord. to the Queen 8 Aug.
1837; created baronet 11 Nov. 1837; member of senate of Univ. of
London 1838–65; physician to Prince Albert 1840–60; served on
general medical council 1858–60; lived at Bagshot park, lent to
him by the Queen 1860 to death; K.C.B. 6 July 1866; author of _The
influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic
diseases_ 1829, _3 ed._ 1841; _Remarks on medical reform_ 1843; _A
memoir of John Conolly, M.D. 1869_. _d._ Bagshot park 29 June
1870. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xix_, 13–19 (1871); _Physic and
Physicians ii_, 254–60 (1839); _Barker’s Photographs of medical
men_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lvii_, 48, 61, 70 (1870), _portrait_.

CLARK, JOHN (_son of Thomas Clark of Greinton, Somerset, minister of
Society of Friends, who d. 16 June 1850 aged 91_). _b._ Greinton
21 Nov. 1785; projected an electric telegraph; took out a patent
for construction of Air Beds and cushions by use of a solution of
india rubber which he disposed of to Mackintosh; constructed a
machine for composing hexameter Latin verses 1848; author of _The
Avalonian guide to the town of Glastonbury and its environs_ 1810,
_10 ed._ 1855; _Tales of the convent of St. Clair_ 1823; _Don
Juan, Canto xvii published by John Clark_ 1827. _d._ Bridgwater 23
May 1853. _J. Smith’s Friends’ books i_, 425–7 (1867).

CLARK, JOHN. Race judge for 30 years at Newmarket, Doncaster, Ascot,
Epsom 1822–52. _d._ Newmarket 15 July 1853 aged 74.

CLARK, JOHN. Attorney in London; clerk of the Central criminal
court, Old Bailey 1829 to death; clerk of the peace for City of
London and borough of Southwark 1829–42 and 1843 to death. _d._
London 28 July 1858. _bur._ Datchet 5 Aug. _City Press 31 July
1858 p. 2, col. 2, and p. 3, col. 2._

CLARK, JOHN. Artist and illustrator of books; inventor and executant
of the Myriorama, Urania’s Mirror and other ingenious art-toys;
known as ‘Waterloo Clark’ from his sketches of some of the
incidents of the field of Waterloo taken by himself on the spot
immediately after the battle. _d._ Edinburgh, Oct. 1863 aged 92.

CLARK, JOHN. Ensign 55 foot 2 June 1814; commandant royal military
asylum 2 April 1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; col. 59
foot 9 March 1863 to death. _d._ Brighton 22 March 1865.

CLARK, RICHARD. _b._ Datchet, Bucks. 5 April 1780; lay clerk at St.
George’s chapel, Windsor and Eton college 1802–11; secretary of
the Glee club 1805; member of Royal Society of musicians 3 July
1814; a gentleman of the Chapels Royal 1 Oct. 1820; a vicar choral
of St. Paul’s cathedral 1827; a lay clerk at Westminster abbey
1828; published _Words of the most favourite pieces performed at
the Glee club, Catch club and other societies_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1824;
_An account of the national anthem, God save the king_ 1822, which
he at first attributed to Carey but afterwards claimed for Bull;
_Reminiscences of Handel_ 1836; _Reading and playing from score
simplified_ 1838; composed glees, anthems and chants. _d._ the
Littlington tower, Westminster abbey cloisters 5 Oct. 1856.

CLARK, REV. SAMUEL (_youngest child of Joseph Clark of Southampton,
brush maker_). _b._ Southampton 19 May 1810; publisher with John
Maw Darton at Holborn hill, London 1836 to 11 June 1843; entered
Magd. hall, Ox. 7 Jany. 1839, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1846; vice principal
of St. Mark’s training college, Chelsea, May 1846–1851; principal
of National Society’s training college, Battersea 1851–63; V. of
Bredwardine, Hereford 1863–71; R. of Eaton Bishop, Hereford, June
1871 to death; inspector of schools for diocese of Hereford 1872
to death; published _Peter Parley’s Tales of the sun, moon and
stars_ 1837; _Maps illustrative of physical and political history
of the British empire_ 1849; contributed to the Speaker’s
Commentary, Leviticus, the latter part of Exodus and Micah; one of
revisers of the Old Testament. _d._ Cosham house, East Cosham,
Hants. 17 July 1875. _Memorials of Samuel Clark edited by his
wife_ (1878), _portrait_.

CLARK, SARAH (_6 child of John Davies of Caerwys, Flintshire_).
Baptized in Caerwys church 1 March 1767. (_m._ 3 March 1790 Wm.
Clark of Hawarden parish, labourer, who _d._ 20 Jany. 1844).
_buried_ at Hawarden 21 April 1871. _W. J. Thoms’s Human
longevity_ (1873) 268–72.

CLARK, THOMAS. _b._ Canterbury 1775; composed several anthems and
many hymn tunes, a few of which continue in use as “Queenborough,”
“Burnham” and “Pembroke.” _d._ Canterbury 30 May 1859.

CLARK, THOMAS. _b._ Ayr 1801; lecturer on chemistry at Glasgow
Mechanics’ Institution 1836; discovered the pyrophosphate of soda
1836; studied at Glasgow Univ. 1827–31, M.D. 1831; apothecary to
Glasgow infirmary 1829; professor of chemistry in Marischal
college and univ. Aberdeen 1833–60 when the coll. and univ. was
fused with King’s college and univ.; best known by his water tests
and by his process for softening chalk waters; contributed to
_Westminster Review_ articles on weights and measures and on the
patent laws 1834–5. _d._ 27 Nov. 1867.

CLARK, THOMAS (_son of Wm. Clark, sheriff-substitute of
Clackmannanshire_). _b._ Whiteside, Stirlingshire 14 Nov. 1820;
landscape painter in oil and water colours at Edinburgh; A.R.S.A.
Nov. 1865. _d._ Dundaroch, Aberfoyle 7 Oct. 1876.

CLARK, THOMAS JAMES (_2 son of Wm. Clark of St. John st. London and
of Edmonton, hop merchant_). _b._ 1822; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
B.A. London 1842; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; went Home circuit;
Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of his inn 25 Jany. 1867. _d._ Myrtle
cottage, Catford bridge, Kent 17 March 1877.

CLARK, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of John Clark, M.D. of Newcastle
1744–1805_). _b._ Newcastle 5 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Cam.
Oct. 1804, scholar 1807, fellow 1809; 7 wrangler 1808, B.A. 1808,
M.A. 1811, M.D. 1827; licensed to practise by Univ. of Cam. 5 July
1813; professor of anatomy at Cam. 1817–66, ordained deacon 1818;
V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1824–5; R. of Guiseley near Leeds 1825–59;
F.R.C.P. 25 June 1830; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of _Analysis
of a course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the human
body_ 1822; _Handbook of zoology translated from the Dutch of J.
Vander Hoeven 2 vols._ 1856–68. _d._ Cambridge 15 Sep. 1869.
_Macmillan’s Mag. xxi_, 267–72 (1870).

CLARK, WILLIAM. _b._ Colchester 17 March 1821; ed. at King’s coll.
London; engineer to municipality of Calcutta 1855–74 where he
devised a complete system of drainage and waterworks; M.I.C.E. 2
Feb. 1864; M.I.M.E. 1867; partner with W. F. Batho in London 1874,
joint patentee with him of steam road roller; invented a tied
brick arch; author of _The drainage of Calcutta_ 1871. _d._
Surbiton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1880. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxiii_, 308–10 (1881).

CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ Barford hall, Darlington, March 1821;
ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam.; second in the classical
tripos and second chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A.
1847; fellow of Trin. coll. 1844 to death, tutor 1856–66, vice
master 9 Oct. 1868 to 1871; public orator of Univ. of Cam. 1857 to
Oct. 1869; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854; relinquished holy
orders by deed inrolled in chancery 2 Sep. 1870; F.S.A. 15 June
1865; one of founders and editors of _Journal of Philology_ 1868;
author of _Gazpacho, or summer months in Spain_ 1850;
_Peloponnesus, notes of study and travel_ 1858; edited with Glover
and Wright _The Cambridge Shakespeare 9 vols._ 1863–6; left £300 a
year to endow a lectureship of English literature at Trinity coll.
Cam. _d._ York 6 Nov. 1878. _C. A. Bristed’s Five years at an
English University_ (1873) 215–7, 219; _Academy ii_, 472, 496
(1878); _Notes and Queries 5 S. x_, 400, 438 (1878), _xi_, 55
(1879).

CLARK, WILLIAM H. Pupil of John Loder the violinist; played the
violin in orchestra of Bath theatre; made his first appearance on
the stage at Weymouth 1833 and in London at Surrey theatre 3 April
1837 in _Jack’s Alive_ and _The loadstone of the earth_; acted at
Haymarket theatre 17 April 1838 to 1877; always known as Little
Clark. _d._ 3 June 1887 in 72 year. _bur._ Tooting cemetery 8
June.

CLARK, SIR WILLIAM STEPHENSON (_son of Wm. Clark, sheriff of York in
1786_). _b._ York, Aug. 1782; studied medicine in London 1803 to
1806; practised at York 1806 to death; one of the city
chamberlains 1809, member of common council for Micklegate ward
1813–20 and 1835–39, one of city sheriffs 1820, alderman 1839–49,
mayor 1839–40, one of the city magistrates 1842 to death; knighted
at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. (_m._ Oct. 1811 Anne 3 dau. of
John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, she _d._ 16 July 1883 aged 95).
_d._ York 2 May 1851.

CLARK, WILLIAM TIERNEY (_son of Thomas Clark of Sion house,
Somerset_). _b._ Bristol 23 Aug. 1873; employed by John Rennie in
London 1808–11; resident engineer of West Middlesex water works
1811 where he constructed reservoirs to contain 40,000,000 gallons
of water; erected Hammersmith suspension bridge 1824–7;
constructed Gravesend town pier 1834–5; erected great suspension
bridge over Danube between Pesth and Buda 1839–49 at cost of
£622,042; M.I.C.E. 1823; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; author of _An account
of the suspension bridge across the river Danube_ 1852–3. _d._
Hammersmith 22 Sep. 1852. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_,
153–7 (1853).

CLARK-KENNEDY, SIR ALEXANDER KENNEDY (_eld. son of John Clark of
Nunland_). _b._ Dumfries 1782; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 Sep.
1802; captured single-handed at Waterloo the eagle of the 105th
regiment of French infantry; lieut.-col. 7 dragoon guards 11 June
1830 to 22 Dec. 1843 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Queen
1841–54; colonel 6 dragoon guards 14 June 1858 to 17 July 1860;
L.G. 3 June 1860; colonel 2 dragoons (Scots Greys) 17 July 1860 to
death; K.H. 1831; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; assumed
additional name of Kennedy 1839. _d._ 69 Oxford terrace, Hyde
park, London 30 Jany. 1864. _bur._ St. Michael’s churchyard,
Dumfries.

CLARK-KENNEDY, JOHN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Knockgrey,
Kirkcudbright 21 Sep. 1817; cornet 7 dragoon guards 25 Oct. 1833;
took additional name of Kennedy 1839; captain 18 foot 4 March
1842, lieut.-col. 22 June 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on
h.p.; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in Crimean war 1854–6;
C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; col. commandant military train 10 Feb. 1860 to
death. _d._ Cairo 18 Dec. 1867.

CLARKE, SIR ARTHUR (_son of Arthur Clarke_). _b._ Dublin 1778;
M.R.C.S. 7 April 1807, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; surgeon to Dublin
police; knighted 1811; author of _An essay on diseases of the
skin_ 1821; _A practical manual for the preservation of health_
1824. _d._ Dublin 9 Nov. 1857.

CLARKE, AUGUSTUS. Entered Madras army 1817; colonel 8 Madras N.I. 4
July 1856 to 1869; general 23 April 1872. _d._ Glebeland house,
Lee 24 Jany. 1878 aged 76.

CLARKE, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837; C. of
Norton by Daventry 1844–54; chaplain to Earl of Stamford 1864;
author of _Letters to an undergraduate of Oxford_ 1848; _Charlie
Thornhill 3 vols._ 1863; _A box for the season, a sporting sketch
2 vols._ 1864; _Crumbs from a sportsman’s table, by A Sportsman_
1865; _The Beauclercs, father and son 3 vols._ 1867 and other
novels; wrote articles in _Baily’s Mag._ under pseudonym of The
Gentleman in black. _d._ from tumor of the abdomen at Esher 23
July 1870 aged 55.

CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (_son of John Clarke of Enfield, Middlesex,
schoolmaster, who d. Dec. 1820_). _b._ Enfield 15 Dec. 1787;
bookseller and publisher in London 1820; music publisher with
Alfred Novello; lectured on Shakespeare and other dramatists and
poets in the provinces and London 1834–56, many of his lectures
were published; lived at Nice 1856–61, at Genoa 1861 to death;
author of _Readings in natural philosophy_ 1828; _Tales from
Chaucer_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1870; _Riches of Chaucer 2 vols._ 1835, _3
ed._ 1877; _Carmina Minima a poem_ 1859; _Shakespeare characters,
chiefly those subordinate_ 1863; _Molière characters_ 1865; edited
with his wife _The works of Shakespeare_ 1864 _and_ 1869, reissued
1875 and under title of _Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare_ 1886.
(_m._ 5 July 1828 Mary Victoria eld. child of Vincent Novello the
composer, she was _b._ 22 June 1809). _d._ Villa Novello, Genoa 13
March 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_, 291, 292 (1877), _portrait_.

CLARKE, SIR CHARLES MANSFIELD, 1 Baronet (_son of John Clarke of
Chancery lane, London, surgeon_). _b._ London 28 May 1782; ed. at
St. Paul’s school and St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1802;
lectured on midwifery 1804–21; surgeon to Queen Charlotte’s
Lying-in-hospital; M.R.C.P.; F.R.C.P.; F.R.S. 9 June 1825; M.D.
Lambeth 1827; physician to Queen Adelaide 1830; created baronet 30
Sep. 1831; hon. M.A. Cam. 1842; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1845; founded the
Milton prize for an English poem at St. Paul’s school 1851; author
of _Observations on those diseases of females which are attended
by discharges 2 parts_ 1814–21, _2 ed._ 1821–6 translated into
German 1818–25. _d._ Brighton 7 Sep. 1857. _Physic and physicians
ii_, 329–31 (1839); _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i_,
16 (1846), _portrait_; _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery
i_, (1840), _portrait_; _R. B. Gardiner’s St. Paul’s school_
(1884) 199, 433–8.

CLARKE, HARRIET LUDLOW (_4 dau. of Edward Clarke of London,
solicitor_). Engraver on wood about 1837; executed some of the
illustrations for Mrs. Jameson’s _Sacred and legendary art_ 1848;
a designer and painter on glass; executed windows in St. Martin’s
church, Canterbury and Sidcup church, Kent 1851–4; executed for
the Queen a large window in church of North Marston, Bucks.;
designed a large window representing history of St. Thomas à
Becket, which was put up in Canterbury cathedral, May 1863. _d._
Cannes 19 Jany. 1866. _G.M. i_, 436 (1866).

CLARKE, JACOB AUGUSTUS LOCKHART. _b._ 1817; studied at Guy’s and St.
Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1842, M.R.C.S. 1860; practised in
London to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, royal medallist 1864;
F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1869; M.R.C.P. 1871;
physician to the hospital for epilepsy and paralysis, London;
author of many articles in medical journals. _d._ 21 New Cavendish
st. London 25 Jany. 1880 in 64 year.

CLARKE, JAMES. _b._ London 1793; teacher of music; author of _A
catechism of wind instruments_ 1845; _Instruction book for
children on the pianoforte_; _The child’s alphabet of music_;
_Catechism of the rudiments of music_; _New School of music_;
composed popular song _The maid of Llangollen_. _d._ Leeds 1859.

CLARKE, JAMES. _b._ 1798; member of British Archæological Assoc.
1847; a frequent exhibitor at its meetings of coins and other
antiquities of which he contributed short notices to the journal;
author of _The Suffolk Antiquary_ 1849. _d._ 25 Sep. 1861.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii_, 367–8 (1862).

CLARKE, JAMES FERNANDEZ (_son of Mr. Clarke of Olney, Bucks. lace
merchant_). _b._ Olney 1812; aided Ryan in the _London medical and
surgical journal_; reported at hospitals and medical societies for
the _Lancet_ 1834–64; M.R.C.S. 1837; practised in Gerrard st. Soho
1837 to death; author of _Autobiographical recollections of the
medical profession_ 1874, reprinted from _Medical times and
gazette_. _d._ 23 Gerrard st. Soho 6 July 1875 in 63 year.
_Medical Circular ii_, 310 (1853); _Medical times and gazette ii_,
82–3 (1875).

CLARKE, JAMES LANGTON (_2 son of Andrew Clarke of Belmont, co.
Donegal_). _b._ 1801; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A.
1833; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; practised as a conveyancer;
admitted to bar of Victoria, Australia 7 June 1855; judge of
county courts for district of Ararat 1867, for district of
Maryborough to about 1874. _d._ Mentone 16 Feb. 1886 aged 85.

CLARKE, JOHN. _b._ about 1830; photographer in Farringdon st.
London; first appeared on stage in London at Strand theatre, Jany.
1852, chief comedian there 1852–5 and 1858–62; thrown from a horse
and lamed for life, Jany. 1863; played at Prince of Wales’s
theatre 15 April 1865 to 1867; acted John Chodd in Robertson’s
comedy _Society_ 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866, Hugh Chalcot in
Robertson’s comedy _Ours_ 15 Sep. 1866 to April 1867, Sarah Gamp
in H. Wigan’s drama _Martin Chuzzlewit_ at Olympic 2 March 1868,
Quilp in A. Halliday’s drama _Nell or the old curiosity shop_ at
Olympic 19 Nov. 1870; acted at nearly all the west-end theatres;
last appeared on the stage at Globe theatre 8 June 1878. (_m._ 10
Aug. 1873 Theresa Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Furtado of London,
professor of music, leading actress at Adelphi theatre, she _d._ 9
Aug. 1877 aged 32). _d._ 15 Torriano avenue, Camden road, London
20 Feb. 1879. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 390–2; _The Players
i_, 129 (1860), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news,
x_, 572 (1879), _portrait_.

CLARKE, JOHN RANDALL (_son of Joseph Clarke of Gloucester_). _b._
about 1828; an architect; author of _Architectural history of
Gloucester_ 1850; and of two novels, _Gloucester Cathedral, or
last days of the Tudors_ 1856, and _Manxley Hall_; contributed to
_Gent. Mag._, _Le Follet_, _The Era_ and other periodicals. _d._
College Green, Gloucester 31 March 1863.

CLARKE, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ about 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; R. of Stretford, Manchester 1850 to death;
rural dean of Manchester 1854 to death; wrecked in the Orion
steamer between Liverpool and Greenock 17 June 1850; author of
_The wreck of the Orion, tribute of gratitude_ 1851; _Trees of
righteousness_; made collections for history of parish of
Stretford which were used by Rev. F. R. Raines in his _History of
the chantries within the county of Lancaster_ 1862. _d._ Stretford
25 Feb. 1860. _G.M. viii_, 463 (1860), _xv_, 243 (1863).

CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (_only son of Wm. Hislop Clarke of
Lincoln’s Inn, London, barrister_). _b._ 11 Leonard place,
Kensington 24 April 1846; went to Victoria 1863; joined staff of
the _Argus_, Melbourne daily paper 1867, wrote the dramatic
criticism some years; contributed to all principal Melbourne
journals; secretary to trustees of public library, Melbourne 1872,
assistant librarian 1876 to death; author of a novel called _Long
Odds_ 1868; produced at T.R. Melbourne pantomimes of _Little
Bo-Peep_ 1870 and _Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star_ 1873; author of
_His natural life_ 1874 a novel republished in London, New York
and Germany; _Holiday Peak_ a collection of stories. _d._
Melbourne 2 Aug. 1881. _Men of the time in Australia, Victorian
series_ (1878) _p._ 36; _Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates_
(1879) _p._ 39.

CLARKE, MARY ANN (_dau. of Mr. Thompson_). _b._ Ball and Tin alley,
White’s alley, Chancery lane, London 1776; eloped at 15 years of
age with Joseph Clarke (_son of a builder on Snow hill, London_)
who married her 1794; the kept mistress of Frederick Duke of York
at Gloucester place 1803–1806 when discharged with pension of
£400; published _The rival princes or a faithful narrative of
facts relative to the acquaintance of the author with Colonel
Wardle 2 vols._ 1810; _A letter to the Right Hon. William
Fitzgerald, chancellor of the Irish Exchequer_ 1813, for which she
was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment.
_d._ Boulogne 21 June 1852. _Biographical Memoir_ 1809,
_portrait_; _The investigation of the charges brought against the
Duke of York ii_, (1809), _portrait_; _The rival princes vol. i_
(1810), _portrait_; _Gronow’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1862)
35–42; _G.M. xxxviii_, 208–9 (1852); _Marmion travestied, a tale
of modern times by Peter Pry_ 1809, in which her history is given
in rhyme.

NOTE.—After the inquiry into the Duke of York’s conduct, Mrs.
Clarke announced her intention of publishing a narrative of
circumstances relating to her connection with him, this book
was actually printed but was suppressed by her in
consideration of receiving the sum of £7,000 and an annuity of
£400 for life, and an annuity of £200 for each of her
daughters; the printer received £1,500 of the above sum of
£7,000, the whole edition of 10,000 copies was burnt except
one copy which was deposited in Drummond’s bank.

CLARKE, NATHANIEL RICHARD (_eld. son of Nathaniel Gooding Clarke of
Handsworth, Staffs. recorder of Walsall_). _b._ Duffield,
Derbyshire 11 May 1785; ed. at Ashbourne gr. sch. and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1811; recorder
of Lincoln, Newark, Northampton and Walsall to death; serjeant at
law 6 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts, circuit 25
(Wolverhampton, Oldbury and Walsall) March 1847 to death. _d._
Wolverhampton 31 July 1859.

CLARKE, SIR ROBERT BOWCHER (_eld. son of Robert Bowcher Clarke of
Eldridge, Barbados_). _b._ 1802; ed. at Codrington coll. Barbados
and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1827; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827;
solicitor general at Barbados 1837–42, chief justice 1842–74;
chief justice of St. Lucia 19 June 1850 to 1859; knighted by
patent 20 March 1840 for his services in relation to emancipation
of the slaves; C.B. 27 April 1848. _d._ Eldridge, Chislehurst,
Kent 9 May 1881 in 79 year.

CLARKE, SEYMOUR (_2 son of Frederic Clarke of Streatham, Surrey_).
_b._ Streatham 1814; superintendent of London division of Great
Western railway, Oct. 1837, in charge of the line from London to
Swindon 1840–50; general manager of Great Northern railway, May
1850 to Sep. 1870; a comr. to inquire into Irish railways 1867,
the report of the commission was chiefly written by him; A.I.C.E.
5 Dec. 1865. _d._ Walthamstow 15 March 1876. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xliv_, 225–7 (1876).

CLARKE, THOMAS. _b._ 14 July 1789; admitted an attorney 1810;
practised in Craven st. Strand, London 1810–45; solicitor to Board
of Ordnance 1845 to death; sec. of the Lowtonian club; member of
council of Incorporated Law Society, July 1843, vice-pres. 1848–9,
pres. 1849–50. _d._ Highgate hill, Kentish town, London 15 July
1854.

CLARKE, REV. THOMAS TRACY. _b._ Dublin 4 July 1802; ed. at
Stonyhurst and Maynooth colleges; entered Society of Jesus 1823;
master at Hodder School 1825–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836;
professor of history and librarian at Stonyhurst college 1840–5;
master of novices at Hodder 1845–60, by his exertions the
novitiate was removed to Beaumont lodge, Old Windsor 4 Sep. 1854.
_d._ the Residence of St. Ignatius’ college, Hill st. London 11
Jany. 1862.

CLARKE, TREDWAY. _b._ July 1764; Second lieut. Madras artillery 20
Oct. 1780, colonel 25 July 1810 to death; head commissary of
ordnance and stores at Fort St. George 1798–1811; declined command
of artillery at Madras 1820; general 23 Nov. 1841; lived in
England 1811 to death, _d._ Upper Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London
3 May 1858.

CLARKE, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 24 Dec. 1798; a bricklayer;
landlord of the Bell Inn, Nottingham to 1847; proprietor of the
Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham 1838–47; played in the
Nottingham Eleven from 1816; played his first match at Lord’s 11
July 1836; a practice bowler at Lord’s 1846; originated the All
England matches 1846; the best slow underhand bowler of his day; a
great fives player, at which game he lost his right eye by
accident. _d._ Priory lodge, Wandsworth road, London 25 Aug. 1856.
_Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 21–6; _Pycroft’s Cricket Field_ (1862),
_portrait_.

CLARKE, WILLIAM. Private soldier; quartermaster 14 light dragoons 15
Sep. 1837, major 23 Nov. 1848 to 30 Dec. 1853; granted
distinguished service reward 18 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
2 Notting hill terrace, Bayswater, London 17 Oct. 1881.

CLARKE, REV. WILLIAM BRANWHITE. _b._ East Bergholt, Suffolk 2 June
1798; ed. at Dedham gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1821, M.A.
1824; presented to a living in Dorset 1833; chaplain to Bishop of
Salisbury 1837–9; V. of St. Thomas’s, Willoughby, N.S.W. 1846 to 1
Oct. 1870; made geological researches in N.S.W. 1839 to death;
ascertained auriferous nature of the country 1841, ten years
before the popular date 1851; voted sum of £1,000 by legislature
of N.S.W. 1853 but £5,000 was afterwards given to him; F.G.S.
1826, Murchison medallist 1877; F.R.S. of N.S.W. 1867; F.R.S. 1
June 1876 in recognition of his discovery of gold in Australia;
author of _Lays of leisure_ 1822; _Recollections of a visit to
Mont Blanc_ 1839; _Remarks on the sedimentary formations of
N.S.W._, _4 ed._ 1878 and of many scientific papers. _d._ North
Shore, Sydney 17 June 1878. _Journal and proc. of Royal Soc. of
N.S.W. xiii_, 4–23 (1880); _Therry’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._
(1863) 363–8; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxviii_, 1–4 (1879); _Quarterly
Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv_, 44–6 (1879); _Phillips’s Mining and
metallurgy of gold and silver_ (1867).

CLARKE, WILLIAM FAIRLIE (_son of Wm. Fairlie Clarke of Bengal civil
service, who d. Calcutta 23 Sep. 1835 aged 47_). _b._ Calcutta
1833; ed. at high school, Edin., Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1856,
M.A. and M.B. 1862, M.D. 1876; studied medicine at King’s coll.
Lon. 1858; M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1863; practised in London
1863–76, and at Southborough near Tunbridge Wells 1876 to death;
assistant surgeon at Charing Cross hospital 1871; author of _A
manual of the practice of surgery_ 1865, _3 ed._ 1879; _A treatise
on the diseases of the tongue_ 1873. _d._ Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
8 May 1884. _bur._ Elvington churchyard 14 May. _Life and letters
of W. F. Clarke edited by E.A.W._ (1885), _portrait_.

CLARKE-JERVOISE, REV. SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of
Jervoise Clarke 1734–1808, M.P. for Hampshire_). _b._ Albemarle
st. Piccadilly, London 25 Nov. 1770, ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A.
1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Chalton with Idsworth 1794–1834; R. of
Blendworth, Hants. 1795–1835; took additional surname of Jervoise
by royal license 9 Nov. 1808; created baronet 13 Nov. 1813. _d._ 1
Oct. 1852.

CLARKE-TRAVERS, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ST. LAWRENCE, 2 Baronet. _b._ 3
Aug. 1801; succeeded 7 Feb. 1808; assumed by royal license
additional name of Travers 20 March 1853. _d._ 3 Queen’s gardens,
Hyde park, London 31 Aug. 1877.

CLARKSON, EUGENE COMERFORD (_3 son of Frederick Clarkson of Doctor’s
Commons, London, proctor_). _b._ 1831; ed. at King’s college,
London; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1854; practised in court of
Admiralty about 1858 to death; Q.C. 21 March 1881. _d._ from
hydrophobia at East end lodge, Pinner 19 Aug. 1881.

CLARKSON, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Faversham
1844 to death. _d._ Westfield lodge, Brighton 24 Oct. 1856 aged
61. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i_, 232–8 (1841);
_I.L.N. iv_, 228 (1844), _portrait_.

CLASON, REV. PATRICK (_youngest child of Rev. Robert Clason,
minister of Logie near Stirling_). _b._ Manse of Dalziel on the
Clyde 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at college of Glasgow; D.D. Glasgow, March
1836; licensed to preach the gospel 1811; minister of Carmunock
near Glasgow 1815, of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease (now Buccleuch
ch.), Edin. 16 April 1824; joint clerk of the free church general
assembly 18 May 1843 to death; moderator of general assembly 1848
and 1864. _d._ 22 George sq. Edin. 30 July 1868. _J. A. Wylie’s
Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 161–4, _portrait_; _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 17–19, _portrait_.

CLASPER, HENRY (_son of Robert Clasper of Dunston near Newcastle_).
_b._ Dunston 1812; a putter at Hetton colliery; a coke burner at
Derwenthaugh; sculled his first race, June 1841; beaten by R.
Coombes at Newcastle 18 Dec. 1844; beat Carroll on the Mersey 29
Sep. 1845; beat W. Pocock at Newcastle 25 Nov. 1845; beaten by
Candlish for the championship of the Tyne 9 Sep. 1851; beat Robert
Campbell of Glasgow for championship of the Clyde and £200, 22
July 1858, beat him again on Loch Lomond 6 Oct.; beaten by T.
White on the Thames 9 Nov. 1858; rowed with three of his brothers
many four-oared races in England and Scotland; a boat builder on
the Tyne; brought his first outrigger boat to London 1844,
generally said to have invented the outrigger boat, but he only
brought it to perfection; rowed on every river between the Thames
and Clyde; presented by the public with a freehold house. _d._
Newcastle 12 July 1870. _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 77, 139,
141, 2 _portraits_; _Illust. news of the world ii_, 267, 269
(1858), _portrait_; _Rowing almanac_ (1863) 95–104.

CLATER, THOMAS (_3 son of Francis Clater of East Retford, Notts.,
farrier 1756–1823_). Baptised at East Retford 9 June 1789;
painter; exhibited 43 pictures at the R.A., 91 at B.I. and 194 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1819–59; fellow of Society of British Artists
1843. _d._ 1 Hemus terrace, South Chelsea, London 24 Feb. 1867.

CLAUDET, ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JEAN. _b._ Lyons 12 Aug. 1797; opened a
warehouse at 89 High Holborn, London for sale of French glass
1829; invented machine for cutting cylindrical glass 1833;
photographer at Adelaide gallery, London 1840–51, at 107 Regent
st. 1851 to death; one of the first to adopt the collodion
process; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; invented many new photographic
processes; photographer in ordinary to the Queen 1858; author of
upwards of 40 papers; received awards of 11 medals; a chevalier of
the Legion of Honour 1863. _d._ 11 Gloucester road, Regent’s park,
London 27 Dec. 1867. _Scientific Review, August 1868 pp. 151–4_;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, pp. lxxxv-lxxxvii_ (1869).

CLAUGHTON, RIGHT REV. PIERS CALVELEY (_son of Thomas Claughton of
Haydock Lodge, Winwick, Lancs., M.P. for Newton, Lancs., who d.
1842_). _b._ Haydock lodge 8 Jany. 1814; ed. at Repton and Brasn.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1859; fell. and tutor of
Univ. coll. Ox. 1837–42; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1845–59; select Pr.
in Univ. of Ox. 1843 and 1850; bishop of St. Helena 3 June 1859 to
May 1862; bishop of Colombo 13 May 1862 to Dec. 1870; archdeacon
of London with canonry of St. Paul’s annexed Dec. 1870 to death;
rural dean of Hackney 1874 to death; chaplain general to the
forces 7 April 1875 to death; assistant bishop of London 1879 to
death; author of _A brief examination of the Thirty nine articles_
1843; _A catechism for the Sundays in Lent_ 1847. _d._ 2 Northwick
terrace, Maida hill, London 11 Aug. 1884. _bur._ Elton churchyard
15 Aug., a tablet to his memory containing a medallion portrait of
him was placed in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral.

CLAVELL, RICHARD. Second lieut. R.M.L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, col.
commandant 13 Feb. 1872 to death; L.G. 25 Dec. 1877. _d._ Gosport
1 Sep. 1878 in 59 year.

CLAVERING, SIR THOMAS JOHN, 8 Baronet. _b._ 6 April 1771; succeeded
14 Oct. 1794; raised at his own expense a troop of yeomanry 1798;
sheriff of Northumberland 1817–18. _d._ Clifton 18 Nov. 1853.

CLAVERING, SIR WILLIAM ALOYSIUS, 9 Baronet. _b._ 1800; succeeded 18
Nov. 1853; sheriff of Durham 1859. _d._ St. George’s hospital,
London 8 Oct. 1872.

CLAXTON, MARSHALL (_son of Rev. Marshall Claxton of Bolton, Lancs.,
Wesleyan minister_). _b._ Bolton 12 May 1813; entered Royal
Academy, Jany. 1831; awarded gold medal of Society of Arts 1835;
competed in the Cartoon exhibitions at Westminster hall 1843, 1844
and 1847; took out to Australia about 200 pictures by himself and
others, which he exhibited gratis 1850, this being the first
exhibition of works of art in Australia; went to India where he
sold most of the pictures; painted for the Queen, ‘General view of
Sydney’ and ‘Portrait of the last Queen of the Aborigines’;
exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 31 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st.
gallery. _d._ 155 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 28 July 1881.

CLAY, ALFRED BORRON (_2 son of Rev. John Clay 1796–1858_). _b._
Walton near Preston 3 June 1831; articled to a solicitor at
Preston; studied art in Liverpool and London; exhibited 19
pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1852–70;
his chief pictures were ‘The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots
at Lochleven Castle,’ ‘Charles ix and the French court at the
massacre of St. Bartholomew,’ ‘The return to Whitehall 29 May
1660,’ now in the Walker gallery at Liverpool. _d._ Rainhill near
Liverpool 1 Oct. 1868.

CLAY, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet. _b._ 14 Aug. 1831; ensign 19 foot 1849,
captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; succeeded
14 Oct. 1876. _d._ 17 Cavendish square, London 30 June 1878.

CLAY, JAMES (_son of James Clay of Old Broad st. London, merchant_).
_b._ London 1804; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A.
1827; took the leading parts in operas performed by amateurs at
Florence when Lord Burghersh was British minister there 1821–30;
travelled in the Holy Land with B. Disraeli 1830; a merchant in
London; contested Beverley, July 1837, and Hull, June 1841; M.P.
for Hull 1847–53 and 1857 to death; chairman of committee to
settle laws of whist 1863, by his book on whist and influence made
the game popular and intelligible; the finest whist and piquet
player of his time; he is described under name of Castlemaine in
G. W. Lawrence’s novel _Sans Merci, or kestrels and falcons 3
vols._ 1866; author of _A treatise, on the game of whist by J.
C._, affixed to J. L. Baldwin’s _Laws of short whist_ 1864. _d._
30 Regency sq. Brighton 26 Sep. 1873. _W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of
Hull celebrities_ (1876) 473–7; _Westminster Papers vi_, 117–8
(1873); _Graphic viii_, 362, 376 (1873), _portrait_; _Power,
Rodwell and Dew’s Controverted elections ii_, 96–100 (1857).

NOTE.—He was unseated March 1853 for bribery by his agents, in
Feb. 1857 he was again returned and his election is the only
instance on record of a member unseated on petition taking his
seat a second time for the same place in the same parliament,
the case would have been tried before a committee of the House
of Commons had not a dissolution occurred 20 March 1857.

CLAY, REV. JOHN (_5 son of Thomas Clay of Liverpool, ship and anchor
smith, who d. 1821_). _b._ Liverpool 10 May 1796; invented an
improved bow and arrow which long bore his name; assist, chap, of
Preston gaol 11 Aug. 1821; entered Em. coll. Cam. as a ten years
man 1822, B.D. 1835; chap, of Preston gaol, Aug. 1823 to Jany.
1858; issued annual reports 1824–57, in 1836 his annual reports
were reprinted in a parliamentary blue book; author of _Twenty
five sermons_ 1827; _Burial clubs and infanticide in England_
1854; _A plain address to candidates for confirmation_ 1866. _d._
Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 21 Nov. 1858. _The prison chaplain
by Rev. W. L. Clay_ (1861), _portrait_.

CLAY, RICHARD. _b._ Cambridge; apprenticed to John Smith at the Pitt
Press, Cambridge; printer near Devonshire square, Bishopsgate,
London; printer to the S.P.G.; head of firm of Clay Sons and
Taylor, Bread st. hill, London, retired Oct. 1868. _d._ Hornsey 10
Dec. 1877 in 89 year. _Bookseller, January 1878 p. 7._

CLAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_son of George Clay of London,
merchant 1757–1836_). _b._ London 15 Aug. 1791; merchant and
shipowner with his father; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 12 Dec. 1832 to
20 March 1857; author of the _Small tenements rating act_ 1850;
one of foremost holders of advanced radical views; secretary to
Board of Control 30 Sep. 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; created baronet 20
Sep. 1841; chairman of Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall
water companies; author of _Speech on moving for a committee to
inquire into the act permitting the establishment of joint-stock
banks_, _2 ed._ 1837; _Remarks on the water supply of London_, _2
ed._ 1849 and 3 other pamphlets. _d._ Cadogan place, London 13
March 1869.

CLAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Liverpool 15 May 1823; manager of ironworks near
Glasgow; invented a method of rolling taper bars 1848; manager of
Mersey Forge, Liverpool; designed and forged the “Monstre” gun
which weighed 22 tons and threw a projectile of 300 lbs. to a
distance of 5 miles, it was mounted at Tilbury Fort; partner in
Mersey Forge to 1864 when the works were transferred to a company;
the first maker of puddled steel on a large scale; established
with C. A. Inman and captain McNeile the Birkenhead Forge 1864;
M.I.M.E. 1859; formed in 1861 Eighth Lancashire artillery
volunteer corps, lieut.-col. commandant 9 May 1861, hon. col. 1
May 1880 to death. _d._ Liverpool 28 Feb. 1881. _Proc. of Instit.
of M.E._ (1882) 3–5.

CLAY, SIR WILLIAM DICKASON, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 21 Dec. 1828;
succeeded 13 March 1869. _d._ 9 Lowndes sq. London 14 Oct. 1876.

CLAY, REV. WILLIAM KEATINGE. _b._ 1797; C. of Greenwich 1823; C. of
Paddington 1830; C. of Blunham, Beds. 1834; B.D. Cam. (Jesus
coll.) 1835; minor canon of Ely 1838–54; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Ely
1842–54; V. of Waterbeach, Cambs. 1854 to death; author of
_Explanatory notes on the Prayer book version of the Psalms_ 1839;
_The book of Common Prayer illustrated_ 1841; _An historical
sketch of the Prayer Book_ 1849; _History of the Parish of
Waterbeach_ 1859, _Landbeach_ 1861, _and Horningsey_ 1865, these 3
histories printed separately by the Cambridge Antiquarian Soc.
were collected into one vol. 1865. _d._ Waterbeach 26 April 1867.
_A history of the parish of Milton by the late W. K. Clay_ (1869)
_v-vi_.

CLAYTON, REV. CHARLES. _b._ Cambridge 13 July 1813; ed. at Caius
coll. Cam., 21 wrangler 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; C. of St.
John’s, Chatham 1837–45; fellow and tutor of his college to 1855;
London sec. to Church Pastoral aid soc. 1845–8; V. of Holy
Trinity, Cam. 1851–65; hon. canon of Ripon cath. 1864 to death; R.
of Stanhope, Durham 1865 to death; rural dean of Stanhope 1880 to
death; author of _Sermons preached at Cambridge_ 1859, _Second
series_ 1865; _Letters from abroad_ 1878. _d._ Stanhope rectory 21
Oct. 1883. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_
(1859) _part 57_, _portrait_.

CLAYTON, REV. GEORGE (_2 son of Rev. John Clayton 1754–1843, pastor
of King’s Weigh House chapel, London_). _b._ London 9 April 1783;
ed. at Reading and Hoxton college; Independent minister at
Southampton 1802, at Walworth, Surrey 1804 to death; ordained 6
June 1804; the Clayton jubilee memorial schools were opened 27
June 1855. _d._ Gaines 14 July 1862. _T. W. Aveling’s Memorials of
the Clayton family_ (1867), _portrait_.

CLAYTON, JOHN. _b._ Hereford; architect at Hereford, where many
public buildings were erected from his designs; practised in
London about 1839 to death; A.R.I.B.A. 13 June 1842, F.R.I.B.A. 2
Nov. 1857; exhibited architectural designs at the R.A. 1844–7,
1853 and 1856; author of _A collection of the ancient timber
edifices of England_ 1846; _The parochial churches of Sir
Christopher Wren erected in the cities of London and Westminster_
1848. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 14 Sep. 1861 aged 41.

CLAYTON, REV. JOHN (_brother of Rev. George Clayton 1783–1862_).
_b._ London 13 May 1780; ordained congregational minister at
Kensington 21 Oct. 1801; pastor of the congregation in Camomile
st. London 4 April 1805 which migrated to the Poultry 1819, where
he was pastor 17 Nov. 1819 to 1847; frequently called on to
undertake services in all parts of the country at openings of
chapels and other special occasions; joint sec. of London
Missionary Soc. 1830–2; author of _The choice of books_ 1811. _d._
Bath 3 Oct. 1865. _bur._ Abney park cemetery, London. _T. W.
Aveling’s Memorials of the Clayton family_ (1867), _portrait_.

CLAYTON, RICE RICHARD. _b._ 15 Nov. 1798; sheriff of Bucks 1838;
M.P. for Aylesbury 28 June 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Hedgerley
park near Slough 4 May 1879.

CLAYTON, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT, 5 Baronet (eld. child of Sir Wm.
Clayton 4 baronet 1762–1834). _b._ Harleyford, Bucks. 28 Aug.
1786; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet Royal horse guards
28 Sep. 1804, captain 27 April 1809 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on
h.p.; served in the Peninsula, Netherlands and at Waterloo; M.P.
for Great Marlow 1831–42; succeeded 26 Jany. 1834; sheriff of
Bucks. 1846; general 12 Jany. 1865. _d._ Southsea 19 Sep. 1866.
_bur._ Marlow parish church 27 Sep.

CLEASBY, SIR ANTHONY (_youngest son of Stephen Cleasby of London,
Russian broker, who d. 31 Aug. 1844_). _b._ 27 Aug. 1804; ed. at
Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830;
fellow of his coll. 1828–36; barrister I.T. 10 June 1831;
contested East Surrey 1852 and 1859, and Univ. of Cam. 1867; Q.C.
22 Feb. 1861; bencher of I.T. 1861–8; serjeant at law 25 Aug.
1868, admitted 2 Nov.; baron of Court of Exchequer 25 Aug. 1868 to
9 Jany. 1879 when he retired on a pension; knighted at Windsor
Castle 9 Dec. 1868. _d._ Pennoyre near Brecon 6 Oct. 1879.
_Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English dictionary_ (1869) _pp.
lxi-civ_; _Law mag. and review v_, 113–27 (1880); _A generation of
Judges by Their Reporter_ (1886) 54–9; _I.L.N. liv_, 93 (1869),
_portrait_.

CLEBURNE, PATRICK. _b._ near Queenstown, Cork 17 March 1828; a
private in British army 1847–50; went to the United States 1850;
studied law at Helena, Arkansas; a private in Confederate army
1861; brigadier general, March 1862; commanded a division at
battle of Stone River 2 Jany. 1863, and at Chickamauga 21 Sep.
1863; killed at battle of Franklin, Tennessee 30 Nov. 1864.

CLEGG, SAMUEL. _b._ Manchester 2 March 1781; apprenticed to Boulton
and Watt; invented lime purifiers for purifying gas; engineer of
Chartered gas company, London 1814; invented and patented a water
meter 1816; an engineer at Liverpool where he lost all his money;
reconstructed the mint at Lisbon; M.I.C.E. 1829. _d._ Fairfield
house, Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Jany. 1861. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 552–4 (1862).

CLEGG, SAMUEL (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ Westminster 2
April 1814; made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves
in Portugal 1836; resident engineer of Southampton and Dorchester
railway 1844–5; M.I.C.E. 1848; professor of civil engineering and
architecture at Putney college, Surrey 1849; lecturer on civil
engineering to Royal Engineers at Chatham 1849 to death; author of
_A practical treatise on the manufacture and distribution of coal
gas_ 1841, _4 ed._ 1866. _d._ Putney 25 July 1856. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 121–4 (1857).