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See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
CLARKE, See also:MARY See also:ANNE (c.1776–1852) , See also:mistress of See also:Frederick See also:duke of See also:York, second son of See also:George III., was See also:born either in See also:London or at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Her See also:father, whose name was See also:Thompson, seems to have been a tradesman in rather humble circumstances. She married before she was eighteen, but Mr Clarke, the proprietor of a stonemasonry business, became bankrupt, and she See also:left him. After other liaisons, she became in 1803 the mistress of the duke of York, then See also:commander-in-See also:chief, maintaining a large and expensive See also:establishment in a fashionable See also:district. The duke's promised See also:allowance was not regularly paid, and to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape her See also:financial difficulties Mrs Clarke trafficked in her See also:protector's position, receiving See also:money from various promotion-seekers, military, See also:civil and even clerical, in return for her promise to secure them the See also:good services of the duke. Her See also:procedure became a public See also:scandal, and in 1809 See also:Colonel Wardle, M.P., brought eight charges of abuse of military patronage against the duke in the See also:House of See also:Commons, and a See also:committee of inquiry was appointed, before which Mrs Clarke herself gave See also:evidence. The result of the inquiry clearly established the charges as far as she was concerned, and the duke of York was shown to have been aware of what was being done, but to have derived no pecuniary benefit himself. He resigned his See also:appointment as commander-in-chief, and terminated his connexion with Mrs Clarke, who subsequently obtained from him a considerable sum in See also:cash and a See also:pension, as the See also:price for withholding the publication of his numerous letters to her. Mrs Clarke died at See also:Boulogne on the 21st of See also:June 1852.
See See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, See also:Authentic See also:Memoirs of Mrs Clarke; Clarke (? pseud.), See also:Life of Mrs M. A. Clarke; See also:Annual See also:Register, vol. li.
End of Article: CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
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