Family and Education
b. c. 1655, 4th s. of Sir John Clerke, 1st Bt., of Shabbington and Hitcham, Bucks. and North Weston by Philadelphia (d. 1698), da. and coh. of Sir Edward Carr of Hillingdon. educ. Magdalen Coll. Oxf. (demy) matric. 31 July 1671, aged 16, BA 1675, MA 1678, fellow 1676–82. m. (1) 23 Mar. 1698, Eleanor Reynardson, s.p.; (2) Grace (d. 1726), s.p. suc. fa. at North Weston 1667, mother at Hillingdon 1698. F. G. Lee, Hist. Thame Church, 290, 311–14; IGI, London; PCC 71 Pott, 85 Fagg; VCH Oxon. vii. 173.
Offices Held
Cornet of horse, Capt. Hon. Henry Bertie’s (I)* indep. tp. 1685.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: North Weston, Oxon; Hillingdon, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
CLERKE, Francis II (c.1655-1715)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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