Family
Clarke married Elizabeth Catherine (Kitty) Hunter in 1770, who eight years earlier had eloped with the married Earl of Pembroke. Kitty had a son by Pembroke, and received a pension from him until 1790, but Clarke and Kitty had no children. Kitty died in 1795.
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