CLARKE, Sir (Charles Mansfield Tobias) Toby 6th Bt (1939-2019)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph and Times of 21 September 2019: CLARKE Sir Tobias, 6th Baronet died peacefully, aged 80, on 16th September 2019. Dearly beloved father of Theodora, Augusta and Lawrence, who succeeds him in the baronetcy of Clarke of Dunham Lodge, Norfolk (cr 1831). Funeral and Burial at St Mary’s Church, Bibury, Gloucestershire, GL7 5NR at 2.30 p.m. on Friday 11th October.

He was s of Sir Humphrey Orme CLARKE 5th Bt (1906-73) and his 1st w (her 2nd h) Elisabeth COOK (d 1967). He m 1st 1971 Charlotte d of Roderick WALTER of Cornwall Gardens, London. He m 2nd Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite d of Somerset Struben DE CHAIR (1911-95), scion of the gentry family of that name (also father by his 4th w of Rt Hon Jacob REES-MOGG's wife, Helena (b 1977)), and his 3rd w Margaret Patricia FIELD-HART (1917-2004), and had a son and two daus. His son succeeds him.

[Sir] Charles Lawrence Somerset CLARKE [7th Bt] (b 1990) has yet to establish his claim and appear on The Baronetage Roll. Unm. His heir presumptive is his cousin:

1. Nicholas Orme CLARKE (b 1976), m with a son and a dau
2. Julian Nicholas William CLARKE (b 2014) son of (1)
3. Alexander CLARKE (b 1992), half brother of (1)
Places 4-15 in line held by other members of the family

[G. Willis]

Some details of the Field-Hart family:

Margaret Patricia eldest of three surviving daus (a fourth recorded at birth as 'female'; the book by Lucy Irvine mentioned below gives 'three') of Kenneth Edward Field-Hart (1894-1940), of Hayes Court, Hayes, Middx., and (The) Limberlost, Heathfield, Sussex, poultry farmer, sometime of Connecticut, U.S.A., emp. Christian Science Monitor -1935 (at Boston, MA, then the London office), by his wife (m. 1916) Dorothy May, dau. of  Davis. Their third daughter, Diana (1921-2003) was a Vogue model and furniture-maker whose marriage to- and life in the Solomon Islands with- Thomas Andrew Cradock Hepworth (1910-1994), son of the filmmaker Cecil Milton Hepworth, was the subject of a book ('Faraway') by Lucy Irvine (also author of 'Castaway' etc).

K. E. Field-Hart only s. (also a dau., Gwendolen Mary Field-Hart) of Edward Hart (1857-), of 18, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex, formerly of Epsom, Surrey, and of Devonshire Road, Lewisham, chartered accountant, and his wife (m. 1880) Ellen Alice (1858-1910), née Field [b. Southwark; possibly dau. of Owen Field, of Russell Court, Whitechapel]

Edward Hart eldest s. of Edward Hart (1828-), of Highbury, Islington, formerly of Knockholt (n.b. Knockholt doesn't appear to be near enough to Swanscombe for this Knockholt to be 'in' Swanscombe; perhaps this was the name of his house? The census record has 'Knockholt' under 'residence'), Swanscombe, formerly of Greenhithe, Dartford, Kent, chartered accountant, and his wife (m. 1854) Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Tibbetts [/Tibletts; the second son was William Tibbetts Hart, b. 1859, a lawyer, which would indicate the former spelling, but the marriage record gives the second version of the name].

Edward Hart fourth s. of William Hart (1795-), of Herbert Street, formerly of Paul Street, Shoreditch, Middx., 'accountant to a public company', and his wife Elizabeth (given their eldest son's name, 'William Austin Hart', I considered it not unlikely that she was originally surnamed 'Austin', but couldn't locate a matching marriage record). This William was born at Hatfield; a record at that location suggests his parents could have been William Hart and Esther, but there are several records matching the general area so this cannot be established easily.

[Harry Merritt]

And, as pointed out before in Peerage News, the Clarke baronets are descendants of two prominent American families: the Roosevelts of New York and the Lowells of Boston. Elfrida Roosevelt, whose father Alfred was a first cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt and whose mother was Katharine Lowell, married Sir Orme Clarke, 4th Baronet, in 1905. They were the paternal grandparents of the 6th Baronet. 

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[colinp]

The 7th baronet is now entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage