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SIR EDWARD GEORGE CLARKE (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDWARD See also:GEORGE See also:CLARKE (1841– )  , See also:English lawyer and politician, son of J . G . See also:Clarke of Moorgate See also:Street, See also:London, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:February 1841 . In 1859 he became a writer in the See also:India See also:office, but resigned in the next See also:year, and became a See also:law reporter . 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 . He joined the See also:home See also:circuit, became Q.C. in 188o, and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1882 . 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) . 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 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 . He was knighted in 1886 . 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 . 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 . 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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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 . 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 . 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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