Personal Life
Clapham married Brenda North Stoessiger in 1933. Their first child, a son, died at the age of 13 months. Clapham and his wife had three other children—two daughters, born in 1935 and 1937 and a son born in 1944. Brenda Clapham died in 1985 or 1986. After her death, Clapham's health worsened. He died in 1990.
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