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Francis Clerke (lawyer) Francis Clerke or Clarke (fl. 1594), was an English lawyer. Clerke, after a short stay at Oxford, left the university and went to Doctors' Commons, and for about forty years practised civil law in various courts. In consequence of his having ac ...

(fl. 1594), English lawyer *

Francis Clerke (politician, died 1686) Sir Francis Clerke (c. 1624 – 25 February 1686) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1685. Clerke was the son of Henry Clerke of Rochester, who was a lawyer and MP for Rochester. Clerke inh ...

(c. 1624–1686), English politician, MP for Rochester *

Francis Clerke (politician, died 1715) Francis Clerke (c. 1655 – 2 May 1715) of North Weston, near Thame, Oxfordshire was a British Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxfordshire from 1710 to 1715. He was the second son of Sir John Clerke, Bt., of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire and North We ...

(c. 1655–1715), English politician, MP for Oxfordshire *

Francis Clerke (politician, died 1691) Francis Clerke (c. 1665–1691) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1690 to 1691. Clerke was the son of Sir Francis Clerke of Ulcombe and Rochester and his second wife Elizabeth Hastings, widow of John Hastings o ...

(c. 1665–1691), English politician, MP for Rochester *

Sir Francis Clerke, 6th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(1682–1769), of the

Clerke baronets There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Clerke family. One creation is extant as of 2008. The Clerke Baronetcy, of Hitcham in the County of Buckingham, was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 July 1660 for John Clerk ...

, Gentleman Usher *

Sir Francis Clerke, 7th Baronet Sir Francis Carr Clerke, 7th Baronet (1748 – 15 October 1777) was the 7th baronet of the Clerke baronets, of Hitcham and was killed at the Battles of Saratoga. Education Clerke of North Weston, Thame was educated at John Roysse's Free Schoo ...

(1748–1778), aide-de-camp to General John Burgoyne, killed at Saratoga

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