William Clarke 1623?-1666
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Sir William CLARKE 1623?-66
Biographical Note
Civil servant, Secretary at War after the Restoration.
Books
His extensive collection of Civil War pamphlets was bequeathed, with other books, to Worcester College, Oxford by his son George (1661-1736).
Sources
- Henderson, Frances. "Clarke, Sir William (1623/4–1666), military administrator." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Hoare, P. (gen.ed.), The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006. II 40.
- Mendle, M. Preserving the ephemeral in J. Andersen (ed), Books and readers in early modern England, 2002, 201-16, 209-10.