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.