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Alderman for Earl Street Ward, Clarke became mayor in 1817 and remained so for the next two years - see PA295/40/54,55 for documents which he signed then, whilst PA17/106 is the diary which he kept at the time of the 1818 general election for which he was returning officer ex officio; see also BA/B/P/456/2: PA56/99/13; a memorial glass was erected to him in St. Mary's Hall Great Hall. Active on the city council, 1811-24, he was a sheriff in 1802-06 (see PA56/83/61-62) and 1815 (see PA17/29/13: PA55/4/1.XXVI). A member of the Weavers' Company (see PA100/8/435 of 1768), he was its warden in 1771 (PA100/8/440) and master in 1777 (PA100/8/442-444). From 1802 until his death in Oct., 1828, Clarke (in succession to his namesake father) administered Sir Thomas White's Charity (PA14/4/10 et passim), having been allowed, because of his father's incapacity, to administer it at the turn of the century - the Charity Commissioners decided that that had been done corruptly; as that charity's bailiff, see BA/A/G/10/6: BA/D/A/9,113-136. PA202/10/21 is Clarke's 1826 assignment of a White's Charity mortgage which had involved his father. His father (mayor in 1769) held a Fleet St. house in trust for him in 1771 (see PA353/1/7; for the property, see also BA/A/G/14/1) and he himself had a house on the eastern side of Little Park St. which was part of Smith's Charity lands (producing 18/- p.a. rent). Briefly in London around 1800, he acted as his father's executor - see BA/A/G/15/12; BA/A/G/23/29-30: BA/B/P/258/8: BA/D/A/24/11: BA/D/AW/1/11: CCA/2/3/80/17; CCA/2/3/803/11-12: PA54/160/7; PA54/238/10-12: PA1681/7/2: PA56/138/1.IX: PA2529/1/11. In 1803 he assigned a Spon End house which his deceased brother Yardley had held (BA/D/A/48/19). Father-in-law of the solicitor John Carter (see PA14/4; PA14/5/29; PA14/7/3), he was surety for Samuel Carter's appointment as gaoler (1820 - PA14/8/54). He gave £100 to Blue Coat School. Clarke held from the corporation a close in the Hearsall Common area (1798 - PA101/8/193) and a garden at Earl's Mill Lane (1815 - BA/A/B/15/3). In 1802 Clarke assigned Bishopgate Green land (PA171/8/3). He occupied a close near Barkers Butts Lane (PA216/1/26). He was posthumously shown in an 1830 trade directory as Alderman John Clarke of Hill Street. Qua Sir Thomas White's Charity trustee, see PA491/97/30: PA811/3/14-18 passim. See PA2398/6/2/56/6. Qua mayor, see PA936/3. As an executor of his father, this silkman conveyed the "Prince William Henry" and five houses up the Foleshill Road in 1802 (see PA2816/4/3-4). In 1796 John Clarke was working with his brother Francis (q.v.) in a weaving bsiness at 8, Wood Street, Cheapside, London [Kent's directory] - ex inf. Dr. B. Ronalds.