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.