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 at the Globe, and in pantomime at Covent Garden. On 15 April 1865 he took part in the performance of the company headed by Miss Marie Wilton (now Mrs. Bancroft), with which the little theatre in Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, reopened as the Prince of Wales's, and played Amina in Byron's burlesque of ‘La Sonnambula.’ His last appearance was at the Criterion, where he appeared in some new pieces, and in the ‘Porter's Knot.’ In 1873 he married Miss Teresa Furtado, a well-known actress, who died 9 Aug. 1877. After her death he broke down. He died 20 Feb. 1879, aged about fifty, in Torriano Avenue, London, N.W. He was a competent actor, with a grating voice and a hard style. His burlesque dancing was marred by an accident to his leg experienced while riding on horseback.

[Era Almanack for 1880; Era newspaper, 23 Feb. 1879; Athenæum and Sunday Times passim.] 

CLARKE, JOHN RANDALL (1827?–1863), architect and author, was son of Joseph Clarke, who settled in Gloucester about 1827, having a civil appointment in that city. John was educated at the college school, Gloucester, and adopted architecture as his profession. Being, however, of a literary turn of mind, he devoted his time to literature rather than to the practical exercise of his profession, producing both verse and prose with fluency. He published an ‘Architectural History of Gloucester from the earliest period to the close of the eighteenth century,’ and a ‘History of Llanthony Abbey,’ illustrated from drawings by himself and others. He also produced two works of fiction, ‘Gloucester Cathedral’ and ‘Manxley Hall.’ He contributed to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ ‘Le Follet,’ the ‘Era,’ and other periodicals. He frequently delivered lectures, which were well attended, to the Gloucester Literary and Scientific Association. Some of these, including two lectures on the churches of Gloucester, were published by subscription, and the last that he delivered, on ‘King Arthur, his Relation and History and Fiction,’ was published by his friends after his death. Clarke's performances were marred by an over-estimation of his own powers, but were very creditable for a man of his age. The promise thus given by his talents was checked in its fulfilment by his premature death at his father's residence at College Green, Gloucester, on 31 March 1863, aged 36.

[Cooper's Biographical Dictionary; Gloucestershire Chronicle, 4 April 1863; Gloucester Journal, 4 April and 3 Oct. 1863; Gent. Mag. 3rd ser. xiv. 1671; private information.] 

CLARKE, JOSEPH (d. 1749), controversialist, son of Joseph Clarke, D.D., rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards at Magdalene College, Cambridge, under Thomas Johnson. He was elected a fellow of his college, proceeded to the degree of M.A., and died after a long illness on 30 Dec. 1749. His funeral sermon, preached in the parish church of Long Ditton on 4 Jan. 1750–1, by the Rev. Richard Wooddeson, M.A., master of the school at Kingston-on-Thames, was printed at London, 1751, 8vo.

His works are: 1. ‘Treatise of Space,’ 1733. 2. ‘A Defence of the Athanasian Creed, as a preservative against Heresy.’ 3. ‘A full and particular Reply to Mr. Chandler's Case of Subscription to Explanatory Articles of Faith, &c.’ 1749, 8vo.

He also edited Waterland's ‘Sermons on several important Subjects of Religion and Morality,’ 2 vols. Lond. 1742, 2nd ed. 1776.

[Funeral Sermon; Addit. MS. 5865, f. 139; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.] 

CLARKE, JOSEPH (1758–1834), physician, second son of James Clarke, agriculturist, was born in Desertlin parish, co. Londonderry, on 8 April 1758. He studied arts at Glasgow in 1775–6, and medicine at Edinburgh in 1776–9, graduating in September 1779. In the spring of 1781 he attended William Hunter's lectures in London, and received a stimulus to obstetrical studies, which determined him to settle in Dublin as an accoucheur. Becoming pupil in 1781 and assistant physician in 1783 at the Lying-in Hospital, he was elected master (or physician) of that hospital in 1786, having in the same year married a niece of Dr. Cleghorn [q. v.], founder of the anatomical school in Trinity College, whom he assisted in his lectures from 1784 to 1788.

Already in 1783 Clarke had suggested the improved ventilation of the Lying-in Hospital, to diminish the serious mortality of infants there within nine days of birth, amounting to one in six, a mortality afterwards reduced to one in nineteen, and later to one in 108. On his appointment as master he began to lecture in the hospital, and established a school of midwifery. On the termination of his seven years of office as master he published (in vol. i. of the ‘Transactions of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland’) a report of 10,387 cases, recounting in detail all points worthy of note, and forming one of the most valuable records in existence on the subject. It was afterwards supplemented by his notes of 3,878 births in private practice, in which he had not lost one mother from