Thomas Clarke (judge)

The Right Honourable
Sir Thomas Clarke
FRS
Master of the Rolls
In office
25 May 1754 – 13 November 1764
Preceded bySir John Strange
Succeeded bySir Thomas Sewell
Personal details
Born1703
Died13 November 1764(1764-11-13) (aged 60–61)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
ProfessionBarrister, judge

Sir Thomas Clarke PC FRS (1703 – 13 November 1764) was a British judge who served as Master of the Rolls. He was the son of a carpenter and a pawnbroker from St Giles in the Fields, and was educated at Westminster School between 1715 and 1721 thanks to the help of Zachary Pearce. On 10 June 1721 he matriculated to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1724.[1][2] He became a fellow of Trinity College in 1727, and a member of Gray's Inn the same year. Clarke was evidently knowledgeable in Roman law, and was mentioned in a poem called the causidicade as a possible Solicitor General in 1742.[3] He became a King's Counsel (KC) in 1740, and in 1742 left Gray's Inn to join Lincoln's Inn, which he became a bencher of in 1754.[2]

In 1747 he was elected a Member of Parliament for St Michael's, and in 1754 was returned for Lostwithiel. After the death of the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Strange, Clarke was offered the position. The job was originally offered to William Murray, later Lord Mansfield, but he turned it down.[2] If he had accepted, Clarke might instead have succeeded Murray as Attorney General for England and Wales.[2] Clarke was officially appointed on 25 May 1754, and was knighted at the same time. In June 1754 he was invested as a Privy Councillor (PC). Clarke evidently discharged his duties "with great credit" for ten years,[3] until his death in office on 13 November 1764. He was buried in the Rolls Chapel, now the main library of King's College London.[3]

Clarke was a close friend of the second Earl of Macclesfield, and this friendship combined with his unclear parentage started rumours that Clark was in fact Macclesfield's son.[2] "He left a large fortune behind him, which he had acquired solely by the practice of his profession, the greater part of it being bequeathed by him to the third earl of Macclesfield, the grandson of his old benefactor."[4] In his will, Clarke left his Flitcroft-designed home,[5] Branch Hill Lodge, to Macclesfield.[6] Outside politics and law, Clarke was a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and "devoted himself to philosophical pursuits".[3]

References

  1. ^ "Clark, Thomas (CLRK721T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Oxford DNB article: Clarke, Sir Thomas (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5533. Retrieved 6 June 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c d Foss (1870) p.167
  4. ^ Barker, George Fisher Russell (1887). "Clarke, Thomas (1703-1764)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. pp. 447–448.
  5. ^ Colvin (2008) p.382.
  6. ^ T F T Baker; Diane K Bolton; Patricia E C Croot (1989). C R Erlington (ed.). Hampstead: Frognal and the Central Demesne. Vol. 9. Hampstead, Paddington, Central London: British History Online. pp. 33–42.

Bibliography

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Clarke, Thomas.
  • Foss, Edward (1870). A Biographical Dictionary of the Justices of England (1066–1870). Spottiswoode and Company.
  • Colvin, Howard (2008). A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600–1840 (4th ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12508-5.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Mitchell
1747–1754
With: Albert Nesbitt 1747–53
Arnold Nesbitt 1753–54 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel
1754–61
With: James Edward Colleton 		Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by Master of the Rolls
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