Alexander South Clarke, 1886-1975

Contents

→ Birth

→ Marriage

→ Children

→ ASC's History of Henstead

→ Death

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Birth

Alexander South Clarke was born on 10^th February 1886 at Lingwood Lodge in Lingwood, Norfolk as the youngest of the four children of Richard John Clarke, a civil engineer, and Elizabeth Anne Clarke, née Borrett. He was known to the family as 'South', that forename having previously been used by his uncle James South Clarke.

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Marriage

A. S. Clarke was married at the church of St. Mary in Westminster (closed 1923) on 18^th September 1920 to Thomasine Roberts - the daughter of William Roberts, a mining 'captain' from Perranporth in Cornwall. Witnesses present were his mother, Elizabeth Anne Clarke, his brother William Welham Clarke and Norma Thomas, née Roberts - sister of Thomasine.

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Children

→ Richard Gregory (1923)

→ Frances April Anne (1927)

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Death

A. S. Clarke died on 10^th May 1975 at St. George's Hospital, Tooting in South London from a respiratory infection in consequence of a fractured pelvis.

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