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Clarke

• References:
  • Unpublished research on Alured Clarke and family, by Lt. Col. John Darlington.

  • Rhual:
    • A short history of Rhual, Basil Heaton, 1987.

  • HEATON in [Burkes LG]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • SIR ALURED CLARKE in Dict. Canadian Biography.
  • SIR ALURED CLARKE in [DNB].
    • See entry in 1885-1900 edn, p.1 (from here) and p.2 (from here).

Charles Clarke, born 1700,
mar 1732 to Jane Mullins [think descendant of Edward III],
he is described on Alured's grave as "one of the Barons of the Exchequer",
had issue:

1. Henrietta Clarke,
   Henrietta Maria, born 1743,
   mar Thomas Griffith,
   they lived Rhual (pron "Real"), just NW of Mold, Flintshire, NE Wales.

2. Alured Clarke,
   pron. "Aller-ed", later Field Marshal Sir Alured Clarke,
   born 24 Nov 1744 [grave], NOT 1745,
   British Army officer,
   started military career in Germany 1759 [grave],
   listed as Captain of 5th Regiment of Foot at time of mar 1770,
   mar 12 Feb 1770 to Kitty Hunter [born est c.1740], no issue,
   she already had two illegitimate sons by two different fathers, both of them Earls,
   a letter survives in Denbighshire Record Office, written by him to a Clarke relative, 1775, from Charles Fort, Kinsale, Ireland; he is about to be posted to North America, Kitty going with him,
   Kitty's son Augustus Reebkomp was serving with Royal Navy in America at same time,
   Alured served in North America apparently 1775-93,
   by 1778 Kitty was back in Europe, staying with her sister Mary Henrietta at Ravensdale Park, Co.Louth, Alured stayed in America,
   he became Colonel of the 7th Regiment of Foot,
   Lieutenant-governor of Jamaica (which Kitty's grandfather had been Governor of) 1784-90,
   Lieutenant Governor of the colonial Province of Quebec,
   Civil administrator of Lower Canada,
   became General in the army,
   Kitty died 1795, age est c.55 yrs,

   in 1795 Alured and his forces were sent to India,
   en route he and his forces stopped in South Africa and defeated a Dutch army at Wynberg, 1795,
   Commander-in-chief of the British forces in Madras,
   Commander-in-chief of the British forces in Bengal,
   briefly Governor-General of India 1797-98,
   Commander-in-chief of the British forces in all of India 1798 to 1801,
   knighted, K.G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath),

   lived Mansfield St, London W1 (see map), there as at 1822,
   he often stayed at his sister's house Rhual, think no country house of his own,
   deed of gift from him to the Montgomerys 17th June 1822, original deposited with Earl of Pembroke, "said transfers were so made by Sir Alured Clarke from the regard he had for the said late Capt Augustus Montgomery" [his stepson] "and then had for his family",
   finally rose to become Field Marshal Sir Alured Clarke 1830 (highest military rank of the UK),
   he died 16th Sept 1832, Llangollen, Denbighshire, NE Wales (some distance to the S of Rhual), age 87 yrs,
   (todo) see Kerry Evening Post, 26th Sept,
   bur 22 Sept [church burial register] at St.Mary's church, off High St, Mold (see map),
   bur in the Rhual vault beside church, grave now gone, was cleared along with other graves in 1950s,
   memorial to him survives inside church.

Memorial to Sir Alured Clarke, inside St.Mary's church, Mold.
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Close-up of memorial to Sir Alured Clarke, St.Mary's church, Mold.
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• Named after Field Marshal Sir Alured Clarke:
  • Alured Clarke Johnson was named after him in 1832.
    See JOHNSON, Baronet in [Burkes Peerage].