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CLARKE, Edward

CLARKE, Edward

Male 1809 - 1852  (43 years)


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  • Name CLARKE, Edward 
    Birth 1809  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Birth 25 Apr 1809  Brooksby Hall Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Baptism 30 Apr 1809  St Michaels Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Occupation 1837  [3] 
    Member of the Royal College of Physicians 
    Occupation 1837  [2] 
    Surgeon 
    Residence Abt 1840  Meriden Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Death 1852  [4, 5] 
    Reference Number 1928 
    Death 20 Dec 1852  [2] 
    • aged 43
    Burial Abt 23 Dec 1852  St Lawrences, Meriden Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I1928  Main Tree
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2014 

    Father CLARKE, Robert,   b. 08 Nov 1774, Brooksby Hall, Leicester Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother JOHNSON, Mary 
    Marriage Abt 1793  [6] 
    Family ID F686  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family EVANS, Christina,   b. 1814   d. 15 Mar 1859 (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 30 May 1837  Chivers Coton Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Children 
     1. CLARKE, Edward,   b. 23 Apr 1838
     2. CLARKE, Robert Evans,   b. Abt 15 Aug 1839   d. 13 Apr 1855, at sea Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 15 years)
     3. CLARKE, Mary Louisa,   b. Abt 15 Mar 1841   d. 05 May 1842 (Age 1 year)
     4. CLARKE, Clara Christiana,   b. Abt 10 Apr 1842   d. 05 Aug 1849 (Age 7 years)
     5. CLARKE, Emily Susannah,   b. 1844   d. 1924 (Age 80 years)
     6. CLARKE, Christopher Charles,   b. Abt 01 Jan 1845   d. 1912 (Age 66 years)
     7. CLARKE, Leonard,   b. Abt 1847   d. 21 Feb 1848 (Age 1 year)
     8. CLARKE, Frances,   b. Abt 1849   d. 24 Mar 1857 (Age 8 years)
     9. CLARKE, Catherine,   b. 1851   d. 1860 (Age 9 years)
    Family ID F695  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Married Christiana Evans, sister of the George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Authoress of Adam Bede etc. A member of the Royal College of Surgeons, etc., had a small practice at Meriden, 5 mi nw of Coventry.n Went bankrupt.
    • on his death he left 'six children under fifteen' [7]
    • According to Gordon S. Haight, he "appears plainly in Middlemarch as Tertius Lydgate, who was not unwilling to have people know that he was better born than the other country doctors and who also had debts of (pounds) 1000 when bankruptcy threatened him." [8]
    • "Christiana Evans ... was married in 1837 to Edward Clarke, fifth son of Robert Clarke, Esq., of Brooksby Hall, Leicestershire, whose earnings as a country surgeon were never adequate to maintain the family. In January 1842 his father-in-law bought from him for (pounds) 250 the little house at Attleborough that her uncle John Evarard had bequeathed to Chrissey, his favorite niece, and a few months later lent him (pounds) 800 more, which if not repaid was to be taken out of her share of Mr. Evan's estate. In spite of these measure, by October 1845, shortly after the sixth of his nine children was born, Mr. Clarke was bankrupt. When he died suddenly in December 1852, he left Chrissey with scarcely any resources." [8]

  • Sources 
    1. [S242] Haight, Eliot Letters, vol 9 p 402.

    2. [S365] Weir, Christeen, (24 Feb 2000), 24 Feb 2000.

    3. [S355] Karl, Frederick, George Eliot, (Flmaingo, London, 1995, 1996), p. 33.

    4. [S150] Haight, Gordon, George Eliot, p. 22.

    5. [S403] Kathryn Hughes, Hughes, Last Victorians, (Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1998), p 81, 920 ELI.

    6. [S201] Conjecture, based on Edward's dob.

    7. [S403] Kathryn Hughes, Hughes, Last Victorians, (Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1998), p. 128, 920 ELI.

    8. [S4] Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot's Originals.


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