Family and Education
b. c. 1624, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Henry Clerke, serjeant-at-law, of Rochester by Grace, da. and h. of George Morgan of Crow Lane House, Rochester; bro. of John Clerke. educ. M. Temple, entered 1641, called 1656; Univ. Coll. Oxf. matric. 1 July 1642, aged 18. m. (1) 17 Oct. 1646, Mary (d. bef. 1663), da. of Sir Robert Darell of Calehill, Kent, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.; (2) Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Cage of Brightwell Court, Bucks., wid. of John Hastings of Woodlands, Dorset, 1s.; (3) lic. 6 Dec. 1670, Elizabeth, da. of John Turner of Canterbury, Kent, wid. of Nathaniel Hardy, DD, dean of Rochester, s.p. suc. fa. 1648; Kntd. 28 May 1660.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 36; Little Chart Reg. 114; Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 54; Lipscomb, Bucks. iii. 29; F. F. Smith, Hist. Rochester, 108, 112.
Offices Held
J.p. Kent July 1660 – d.; commr. for assessment, Kent Aug. 1660–80, Rochester 1663 – 64; sewers, Medway marshes Dec. 1660; warden, Rochester bridge 1661, 1669, 1676, 1683, asst. 1661 – 84; commr. for corporations, Kent 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers 1662; sub-commr. for prizes, Dover 1665 – 67; receiver of hearth-tax, Kent 1664 – 67, dep. lt. 1665 – 68, 1680 – d., commr. for recusants 1675; freeman, Maidstone 1683–d.
Gent. of privy chamber by June 1660–d.
Main residences: Rochester; Ulcombe, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
CLERKE, Sir Francis (c.1624-86)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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