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).