See also:SIR See also:EDWARD See also:GEORGE See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- SIR EDWARD GEORGE CLARKE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
CLARKE (1841– )
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See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke of Moorgate See also:Street, See also:London, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:February 1841
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In 1859 he became a writer in the See also:India See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but resigned in the next See also:year, and became a See also:law reporter
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He obtained a Tancredlaw See also:scholar-See also:ship in 1861, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1864
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He joined the See also:home See also:circuit, became Q.C. in 188o, and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1882
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In See also:November 1877 he was successful in securing the acquittal of See also:Chief-Inspector Clarke from the See also:charge brought against certain Scotlhnd Yard officials of See also:conspiracy to defeat See also:justice, and his reputation was assured by his See also:defence of See also:Patrick See also:Staunton in the Penge See also:murder See also:case (1877), and of Mrs See also:Bartlett against the charge of poisoning her See also:husband (1886)
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Among other notable cases he was counsel for the See also:plaintiff in the See also:libel See also:action brought by See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Gordon-See also:Cumming (ago) against Mr and Mrs Lycett See also:Green and others for See also:slander, charging him with See also:cheating in the See also:game of See also:baccarat (in this case the See also:prince of See also:Wales, afterwards See also:Edward VII., gave See also:evidence ), and he appeared for Dr See also:Jameson, Sir See also:John See also:Willoughby and others when they were tried (1896) under the See also:Foreign Enlistment A et
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He was knighted in 1886
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He was returned as Conservative member for See also:Southwark at a by-See also:election See also:early in 188o, but failed to retain his seat at the See also:general election which followed a See also:month or two later; he found a seat at See also:Plymouth, however, which he retained until 1900
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He was See also:solicitor-general in the Conservative See also:administration of 1886–1892, but declined office under the Unionist See also:government of 1895 when the law See also:officers of the See also:crown were debarred from private practice
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The most remarkable, perhaps, of his speeches in the See also:House of See also:Commons was his reply to Mr See also:Gladstone on the second See also:reading of the Home See also:Rule See also:Bill in 1893
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In 1899 See also:differences which arose between Sir Edward Clarke and his party on the subject of the government's See also:South See also:African policy led to his resigning his seat
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At the general election of 1906 he was returned at the See also:head of the See also:poll for the See also:city of London, but he offended a large See also:section of his constituents by a speech against See also:tariff reform in the House of Commons on the 12th of See also:March, and shortly afterwards he resigned his seat on grounds of See also:health
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He published a See also:Treatise on the Law of See also:Extradition (4th ed., 1903), and also three volumes of his See also:political and forensic speeches
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