Alexander South Clarke was born on 10th 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,
nee Borrett. He was known to the family as 'South', that forename having
previously been used by his uncle James South Clarke.
A. S. Clarke was married at the church of St. Mary in Westminster
(closed 1923) on 18th September 1920 to Thomasine Roberts -
the daughter of William Roberts, a mining 'captain' from Perranporth in
Cornwall.
A. S. Clarke died on 10th 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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