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 charity to the distressed, and of known integrity to all men." He departed this life 21 April, 1670. He was present at the Battle of Worcester, where he was taken prisoner, and for some time confined in Worcester gaol. There is a portrait of him in Nash's Worcestershire (vol. ii., p. 44).

CLARENCE, DUKE OF. See .

CLARENDON, EARLS OF. See and .



Admitted 22 January, 1842.

Eldest son of the Rev. George Clark, of Chelsea, Chaplain to the Royal Military Asylum. He was born in London, 26 May, 1809, and educated at Charterhouse. He began life as an engineer, in which capacity he was entrusted, under Brunei, with the construction of portions of the Great Western Railway, to which line he published a Guide (1839). In 1843 he went to India to report upon the sewage of Bombay, and whilst there he advocated the construction of the first railway from Bombay to Tannah. In 1852 he undertook the re-organization of the Dowlais Ironworks which under his direction attained their vast development; but his chief reputation rests on his knowledge of archaeology as displayed principally in his work entitled Mediæval Military Architecture in England, published in 1884, and in his Land of Morgan (1883), and other contributions to the history of his adopted county, Glamorgan. He died at Tal-y-garn, 31 Jan. 1898.

CLIFFORD, BARON. See .



Admitted 19 June, 1648.

Son and heir of Hugh Clifford of Chudleigh, Devon, a Royalist Officer in Charles I.'s campaign against the Scots, 1639. He was educated at Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1660, and there spoke "confidently and often," though there is no record of his speeches. He subsequently joined the Navy and took part, under the Duke of York, in the defeat of the Dutch fleet off Harwich, 3 June, 1665, and was knighted. He subsequently served under the Earl of Sandwich (q. v.), and was sent on an embassy to Denmark on matters of navigation and commerce. In 1666 he was placed on the Privy Council. As a politician he supported the Earl of Arlington and the Court party, and in 1667 became a member with him of the famous Cabal ministry, in which he exerted his influence in favour of a French alliance and opposition to the Dutch, and he was largely instrumental in bringing about the Treaty of Dover, 1670. In 1672 he filled the office of Principal Secretary of State and in the same year was created Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, and Lord High Treasurer. He violently opposed the passing of the Test Act, being a Roman Catholic, and the passing of it brought about his downfall, 1673. He retired! into Devonshire, where he died, it is supposed by his own hand, in the September of that year.