| His first wife, Elizabeth Jane Higgins (the daughter of Charles Higgins,
a brewer) was born in Wiltshire, and they married at the Independent Chapel, Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1855. She died at the Villa Arson, Nice, France in April 1891. She had converted to Catholicism and appeared to remain in Europe. |
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"Who Was Who 1897-1915" (p.101 or p.139) lists third wife (Helen Louise Patton) and 6 sons and 5
daughters (we have 7 and 5 !).
As this was written many years later it is likely it refers to living
children. One son, the twin Alred, died soon after birth. [link].
I cannot trace much about his sons, except William
Lyon Clark, post-1881 (but see below for latest info).
The daughters, mainly older, stayed in England. |
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| There were no children from his subsequent marriages to Emilie Mary Campbell (nee Noall) in 1891 or to a Helen Louise
Patton in 1906. See the William Robinson Clark page. |
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As reported by an early Lyon family member
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One of George Lyon's sisters had married the Rev. Mr. Clark
of Deviot (two miles from Inverurie). Her son Rev. Wm. Clark
refused two bishoprics including that of Ely. His two daughters
had become Roman Catholics at a French School. One was Lady
Cole* the other Lady Petre, the latter a very old barony which
descends to daughters as well as male heirs it is "Petre of
Furnwall". Rev. Wm. Clark was at Wells and later came to Trinity
College Toronto. I remember, as a very small child hearing
him lecture on, "The Water Babies". He was a very handsome
man.
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| * Alan Summerly Cole, the son of Sir Henry Cole, was an emminent
person in his own right but I can find no evidence he was a
Sir or Lord [ed]. |
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William Robinson Clark died on 12th November 1912 in Canada.
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The daughters of William Robinson Clark |
| He appeared to have (at least) five daughters:- |
- Katherine Elsie Clark, later
Hon Mrs Petre and subsequently Lady
Hawtrey
- Margaret
Elizabeth Clark, married Alan Summerley (Summerly) Cole,
son of Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the (V&A)
South Kensington Museum
- Etheldreda Mary Clark (known as Audrey), later Lady Petre
- Hylda or Hilda Frances E Clark, married the explorer
Henry De Windt
- Augusta M Clark has now been confirmed as the previously
missing daughter.
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Katherine Elsie Clark, daughter of
William Robinson Clark,
|
| Katherine Elsie Clark married Albert Henry Petre, the son of
the 11th Baron Petre, one of the largest land-owning families in Essex and East Anglia,
UK. However at the present time I have not confirmed the details of this
marriage. |
| see
Barons Petre |
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| After the 11th Baron Petre died, in 1917, she married Sir Charles
Hawtrey in 1919
(not to be confused with the unrelated Carry On ..... star who adopted
the same name
after the death of Sir Charles). |
| Sir Charles Hawtrey was a victorian actor, comedian and theatre
owner/producer and
was a mentor to the younger Noel
Coward, who was "apprenticed" to him.
He appeared in some of the first silent movies. |
| He was knighted by the King of England on 1 January 1922, becoming
Sir Charles Hawtrey,
and his wife, Lady Katherine Elsie Hawtrey. |
|
Sir Charles Hawtrey
|
Charles Henry Hawtrey,
English actor (1858-1923), was born at Eton, where his father
was master of the lower school, and educated at Eton,
Rugby and Oxford. He took to the stage in 1881, and in 1883
adapted The Private Secretary, which had an enormous success.
He then appeared in London in a number of modern plays. Among
his later successes, "A Message from Mars" was particularly
popular in London and in America. He appeared in some of the
early slient films. |
wrong one !
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| See Sir Charles Hawtrey
page |
| Sir Charles was responsible for the naming of the "Hanky-Panky
cocktail". |
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| Katherine Elsie Hawtrey (nee Clark) died in 1930. |
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See link for :- Theatre Museum: Victoria & Albert Museum
Ekstrom Collection: Diaghilev and Stravinsky Foundation, 1902-1984
see also Telegram from Lady Katherine Elsie Hawtrey to Serge Diaghilev
1
page, ref: THM/7/2/1/4/113 1927 July 22 |
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Etheldreda Mary (Audrey) Clark - daughter of William Robinson
Clark
|
Etheldred Mary (or Audrey) Clark married into the same Petre family
as her sister,
she married Bernard Henry Philip Petre, the 14th Baron Petre.
She died in 1959. |
| They had a daughter Lady Mary Frances Katherine Petre, Baroness
Furnivall. |
| There is a portrait
of Bernard Henry Philip Petre in the V&A from 1902. |
| |
Lady Mary Frances Katherine Petre's first marriage was to Augustus
Agar, VC (see
VC details).
His telescope and Victoria Cross medal are in the Imperial
War Museum, London.
Augustus (Gus ) Agar |
| She subsequently married Willam Herbert Shelley Dent. |
|
Margaret (Margie) Elizabeth Clark
- daughter of William Robinson Clark
|
| She married Alan Summerly Cole, son of Sir Henry Cole, KCB. in
1879 |
| He was a Director of the South Kensington Museum (V&A) and an expert in textiles, especially lace, and was the author of a number of catalogues on the subject. |
| They had four children, Hilda (b. ca 1880, m. Jack Bennet), Muriel (b. ca 1882), Jack (b. ca 1884) and Doreen (1901-1903). |
| He was a friend of Oscar Wilde and the painter Whistler. |
| Alan Summerly Cole was a life long friend of the artist James Abbott
McNeill Whistler.
see link
for Whistler . In 1876 Whistler gave Cole an number of spontaneous sketches he had made of The Blue Girl: Portrait of Connie Gilchrist and Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder (now in British Museum). |
| In 1879 Cole helped Whistler plan a trip to Venice. This was an important period in Whistler's life. |
| Cole and Whistler remained life-long friends and correspondents. |
| In the spring of 1876 Whistler had begun a portrait of Cole's father which was taken up again in February 1882 but never finished as Henry Cole died on 18 April 1882. The picture appears to have been destroyed. |
| see Centre
for Whistler Studies - Alan Summerly Cole |
| |
It was his father Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria
and Albert Museum, who commissioned the First
Christmas Card from John
Calcott Horsley
The
First Card - 1843
Sir
Henry Cole and the First Christmas Card |
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Hylda or Hilda Frances Clark - daughter of William Robinson Clark
|
| Just when you though this could not go on - there is more ! |
| Hilda married Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (b. Paris
1856). |
 De Windt
was the ADC to the Rajah of Sarawak, an explorer and author
of many books about his travels (Overland from Paris to New
York via Siberia, Peking to Paris, Russia to India via Persia,
Trough Savage Europe, to name a few), and much much more.
They married in Marylebone, London (his second marriage) in
1899 - not in Toronto as previously thought.
Hilda died in 1924.
His books were published under the name of Harry de Windt.
He died in 1933.
He also must have been a truly amazing man.Harry de Windt died in Bournemouth in 1933 and is buried
there.
Two of the books that he published about his travels are
shown here. |
| Books of Harry de Windt, FRGS |
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| From Paris to New York by Land |
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| Through Savage Europe |
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| See Harry de Windt page |
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The sons of William Robinson Clark
|
Although he had six sons (and probably two more that died at birth
or an early age),
little trace can be found of them after the 1881 census. |
| Details of his eldest son (Major) William
Lyon Clark and Charles L B Clark have recently emerged. |
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Etheldreda Clark links
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| http://home.planetinternet.be/~jos81/link/philippides/phzw8.htm |
| Directory
of Royal Geanealogical data |
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