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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941 about Henry Butler Clarke
Name: Henry Butler Clarke
Probate Date: 1 Nov 1904
Death Date: 10 Sep 1904
Death Place: France
Registry: London

of Aica Errotta St Jean De Luz Basses Pyrenees France died 1904 probate london 23rd Feb to henry john Clarke commercial clerk £439 9s

Name: Henry Butler Clarke
Probate Date: 1 Nov 1904
Death Date: 10 Sep 1904
Death Place: France
Registry: London



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“Aice Errota” St. Jean-de-Luz Basses Pyrenees France
Died 10 Sept 1904 at Torquay. Probate London 1st November to Thomas Piers Clarke esq
Effects £13218 11s 9d

Many thanks Maddie :-)

Also to Glitter Baby :-)

There are a lot of Electoral Roll entries, which I cannot view but there is this one - the transcription is wrong. His name is Henry Butler Clark and the marriage date is 25 Dec 1905 not 1906:

Name: Henry Clark - french polisher
Age: 32
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Spouse Name: Phoebe Rosina Scarrott
Spouse Age: 23
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 25 Dec 1906
Parish: Hoxton St John
Borough: Hackney
Father Name: Henry Butler Clark - fremch polisher
Spouse Father Name: Owen William Scarrott pianoforte maker
Register Type: Parish Register
Address for bride and groom - 38 Buckland Street

I will PM you the image

Maddie has got the wrong details as she has posted some from the entry below


Have sent the image through the message system

Thanks everyone.

Potty, I understand that the Henry Butler Clarke in my family was an academic (Professor of Spanish).

Glitter Baby,

Many thanks for sending that image through - much appreciated.

Do you have him in any census/know other family member's names?
Was he a genuine Professor, or was it likley to be an aquired title as he taught Spanish?

This might be one of the ER entries which Potty found, but not necessarily your Mr Clarke

Henry B Clarke
Electoral Year: 1904
County or Borough: Tower Hamlets
Parliamentary Division: Poplar
Clarke, Henry B. 14 Lochnagar Street – 3 rooms first floor (rented unfurnished) from J Carter of the same address.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
Henry Butler Clarke
Birth: 1863
Death: 1904

No preview or image, which is a bit of a waste of time!!

From Wiki

Henry Butler Clarke (9 November 1863 — 10 September 1904) was a lecturer on Spanish at the University of Oxford's Taylor Institution from 1890 to 1894, and an author of books about Spanish literature and history. His best-known work is Modern Spain, 1815-1898, published posthumously in 1906.[

Clarke was partly raised in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on the French-Spanish border, where his father was Anglican chaplain. He studied at the University of Oxford, and in 1890 was appointed lecturer on Spanish at the Taylor Institution. He resigned as a lecturer for reasons of health in 1894, but remained Fereday Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and continued to write and research. In 1898 he was invited to give the annual Taylorian Lecture, choosing as his subject the picaresque novel.[2] He died in Torquay in 1904.

The quoted death above in Torquay doesn't quite tie up with a death in the Pyrenee!!

Yes, I'm certain that he was a Professor. He won't appear (only as a child) in the Census because his father ( a Minister) went to work in Spain.

Thanks Detective. I did see that info. The image that Glitter Baby sent through was correct.

Not sure why you think the 1904 probate posting is wrong

His address was in France but he died in Torquay

?? or a co-incidence??

Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886
Henry Butler Clarke is Henry, of Somersall, co Stafford, cler. WADHAM COLL., matric 19 Oct 1885 age 21

Sorry - Glitterbaby, you are of course correct :-D Blame it on the new glasses!!!

My Henry Butler Clarke was from Staffordshire.

According to the Wiki page -
Marchington,

Marchington is a small village in East Staffordshire, England. It lies between the towns of Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter.

1871 ?
Name: Henry Butler Clarke
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1864
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Henry Clarke
Mother's Name: Helen Clarke
Gender: Male
Where born: Marchington, Staffordshire, England
Civil parish: Rokeby
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
Town: Rokeby
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England
Registration district: Teesdale
Sub-registration district: Barnard Castle
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Household schedule number: 43
Piece: 4944
Folio: 45
Page Number: 10
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Clarke 37 - Southampton- Rector of Rokeby
Helen Clarke 31 - Derby
Lycolene H Clarke 8
Henry Butler Clarke 7
Thomas P Clarke 5
Innes Watson 19
Jas Chas Brockbank 16
James Alderson 19
Emma Hill 18
Jane Spencer 18
Mary Clarkson 14

Class: RG10; Piece: 4944; Folio: 45; Page: 10; GSU roll: 848023.

Piers, is your Henry Butler Clarke a direct descendent of Henry Rose Clarke?

Yes he is FamilySearcher.

Glitterbaby, you are spot on - that's the chap.