Thomas Clarke, auctioneer, was in a partnership with Henry Brown (c.1846-53:- see PA101/9/107: PA54/128/20: PA56/6/106,108,109; PA56/20/8; PA56/55/2; PA56/95/3: PA468/4/5/5/1); he leased premises on the corner of Hertford St. and Smithford St. in 1856 (see PA101/9/108), acted for Bayley's School trustees in purchasing railway-shares (1866-69: PA368/47) and was named an executor under the draft wills of Thomas Brown (1847: PA101/1/613) and William Slingsby (1862: PA101/9/68) and the latter's probated one (1883: CCA/2/3/233/31.I); he was from 1854 a shareholder in the Coventry Corn Exchange and Public Room Company (PA102/1). Clarke contributed £10 to St. Michael's Parish Schools (opened on 7th. Mar., 1853) and 10gn. plus 1gn. towards the School of Art's 1859 rebuilding. The firm was later called Clarke & Cope. See PA99/9/17: PA101/11/59,61,76: PA379/4: PA468/4/3/68/48: BA/A/G/8/4. In 1865 Clarke owned the "Old Rose and Crown", Burges (PA171/38/1), which he had mortgaged to William Davies Jephcott (q.v.) in 1851 (see CCA/2/3/221/27). Clarke died on 20th. Mar., 1885 in his sixty-ninth year - see PA279/10/334; PA279/44/271. For Clarke's dealings with the Irby-Hopkins estate when working alone, see PA279/3/44; PA279/4/49-51; PA279/5/32-35; PA279/6/20; PA279/7/4; PA279/10/29,41,108,109 fol.8,123,159; PA279/44/62, 65, 75, 78, 84, 87, 89, 93, 116, 288, 292, 418, 630, 637, 640, 654, 659, 663, 705, 825, 1020, 1030, 1036, 1040, 1065, 1067, 1068, 1071, 1079, 1087, 1102, 1106, 1109 ,1112, 1114, 1116, 1122, 1123, 1126, 1130, 1132, 1140, 1141, 1145, 1147, 1151, 1154, 1157, 1166, 1167, 1171-1173, 1179, 1184-1186, 1190, 1192, 1194, 1199, 1201, 1208, 1209, 1213, 1215, 1219, 1221, 1222, 1229, 1233, 1234, 1236, 1243, 1244, 1246, 1247, 1253, 1254, 1259, 1262, 1265, 1272, 1278, 1282, 1287, 1295, 1306, 1311, 1317, 1326, 1329, 1330, 1333, 1336, 1339, 1341, 1342, 1345, 1350, 1354, 1357, 1360, 1366, 1370, 1375, 1378, 1381, 1385, 1390, 1394, 1396, 1408, 1413, 1421, 1425, 1433, 1435, 1438, 1439, 1442, 1455, 1460, 1463, 1465, 1468, 1482, 1486, 1488, 1505, 1513, 1517-1519, 1521, 1522, 1524, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1537, 1539 - 1541, 1543, 1544, 1549, 1550, 1556, 1557, 1559, 1560, 1562, 1563, 1567, 1576, 1587, 1589, 1591, 1609, 1614, 1616, 1619, 1622, 1630, 1631, 1649, 1654, 1663, 1665, 1669, 1673, 1677, 1681, 1685, 1687, 1695, 1709, 1710, 1712-1714, 1716, 1723, 1726, 1736, 1738, 1743, 1747, 1755, 1761, 1772, 1794, 1796, 1799, 1800, 1804, 1809, 1814, 1815, 1818, 1823, 1833, 1834, 1860, 1878, 1886, 1887. For the firm when it was Clarke & Cope during Clarke's lifetime, see PA279/10/296, 300, 305, 312-315; PA279/44/1900 (notice of partnership with Junius L. Cope, 1883), 1931, 1932, 1940, 1944, 1946, 1960-1962, 1966, 2006, 2013, 2042, 2053, 2065, 2068, 2071, 2083, 2109, 2115, 2142, 2147, 2151, 2154, 2158, 2162, 2164, 2167, 2193, 2197, 2206, 2223, 2227, 2231, 2232, 2235, 2238, 2239, 2244, 2250, 2257, 2261, 2266, 2269, 2277, 2282 2284, 2290, 2295, 2299, 2308, 2315, 2316, 2318, 2322, 2323, 2328, 2329, 2342, 2343, 2370, 2373, 2376, 2379, 2412, 2413, 2425, 2475, 2483, 2493, 2496, 2499, 2503, 2504, 2508, 2514, 2515, 2517, 2520, 2545, 2561, 2564, 2592, 2608, 2614, 2628, 2632, 2648, 2650, 2657, 2661, 2666, 2678, 2679, 2682, 2688, 2689, 2697, 2702, 2705, 2708, 2709 (for the firm hereafter, see Cope Junius L.), 3209, 4045; PA279/45/1-3. Clarke bought Doe Bank, Spon End in shares, 1868-84 (BA/A/G/35/1.XXIIIff passim,2). He valued Junction St. and Hertford Place houses, 1866 (PA436/5/57: PA466/5/1 p.37). He auctioned Stivichall Villa and the "Stivichall Arms" in 1874 (PA466/12/21). In 1856 he sold a St. Nicholas' St. house (PA409/1/4). In 1879, Clarke renounced his executorship of Dennis George Barnes (q.v.)' will (see CCA/2/3/201/12.V,VI; CCA/2/3/909/14: PA440/5/37). He was a trustee of the solicitor John Royle (q.v.)'s will (1866-80:- CCA/2/3/148/8: PA440/6/37-41: PA1681/33/1), auctioning the relevant property. He sold St. John's advowson (1865 - PA500/73/1). In 1869 Clarke ordered a copy of Thomas Sharp's "Coventry Antiquities" - see PA506/147/11. In 1866 he auctioned Birmingham Banking Co. property (see PA562/25). He was a mortgagee of Reverend Arthur William Gregory (q.v.), 1859-68 (PA1681/41/26-34 passim). Clarke auctioned Corley, Warwickshire land in 1871 (PA1681/47/2: PA1484/31/3). He inventorised and valued licensed premises for William Ratliff, 1870-83 (PA56/6/173,174,179,180). Clarke arbitrated between Leavesley & Hands when they dissolved their silkdyeing partnership in 1859 (see PA56/51/8). He auctioned the late plasterer William Webb's diverse properties in 1860 (PA56/65/9,10) and the ribbon-weaver Daniel Gilbert's Hillfields houses in 1863 (PA56/71/10). Valued Mount Street, Chapelfields houses, 1874 (PA56/134/4,5). Clarke was a trustee under the innkeeper George Hall's will, 1848 - see PA56/138/11.VI - and auctioned relevant land in 1864, receiving mortgage-money the next year (see PA56/138/12,14,17). For Clarke's dealings with Bablake School, 1872-76, see PA489/4/12/1; PA489/4/15/1. Qua Wheatley's Charity trustee, 1878, see PA489/4/31/4. In 1867 he was proposed as a Church Charities trustee - see PA2297/2/2. In 1869 Clarke auctioned the "Hollyhurst" estate, Bulkington, Warwickshire (PA2297/9/6). He was named an executor of the former publican George Hall (q.v.) in 1848 and so acted in 1850 (see CCA/2/3/156/8.VIII,10: PA491/9/4.XVII,XIX). See PA491/79/7 for his auctioning of property at the corner of Little Park Street with Saint John Street in 1862; PA491/85/6 for that of the Smith brothers' ribbon-factories in 1862. See PA2398/6/2/21/2. Clarke auctioned 74-76, Spon End in 1881 - see PA2398/7/6/1. For Clarke's "Queenswood" estate at Keresley, 1877-85, see PA2473/5/2/2/4.XVIII-XXI. Clarke was described as an accountant in 1855 when he was an assignee of the financially-embarrassed grocer Thomas Pratt (q.v.) - see CCA/2/3/212/51.XII,52. In 1878 Clarke auctioned a small farm at Walsgrave (CCA/2/3/111/26). He was named an executor of the maltster Charles Graham Rose (q.v.) in 1873 (CCA/2/3/811/5.I: PA2770/52/1.VI). Brown & Clarke sold part of Sir Thomas White's Charity's Swanswell Estate in 1850 - see CCA/2/3/774/1. Clarke auctioned Broadgate, Derby Lane and Spon Street property in 1878 - see CCA/2/3/187/61; the "Leopard", 64, Smithford Street in 1881 - see CCA/2/3/167/50; Smithford Street, Vicar Lane and Hall Green property in 1869 - see CCA/2/3/34/38. He was trustee when the fishmonger James Blythe (q.v.) bought Market Place property in 1859 - see CCA/2/3/175/10. Clarke auctioned the ironmonger Thomas Lambert Gillott's estate in 1881 - see CCA/2/3/140/59,60. In 1877 he auctioned Radford toll gatehouse; 2-4 and 39, Cross Cheaping; 53, West Orchard; part of Hearsall Common; Mill Yard, Cox Street, tenements; and London Road, ground at Whitley - see CCA/2/3/168/50: PA2710/8/4. A "Coventry Standard" shareholder, 1848 (PA2546/1). He auctioned 9, Victoria Street, Hillfields (1866 - PA2710/1/15); the Corley, Warwickshire estate which Joseph Cash bought (1871 - PA2710/3/1), an Albert Street[, Butts] house and a life-interest in 5, Duke Street, Chapelfields (1857 - PA2710/8/2,3); and the "Fleur-de-Lis" inn at, 43, Smithford Street and Coventry Cotton-Spinning & -Weaving Co. Ltd. and Leigh Mills Co. Ltd. shares (1885 - PA2710/8/7). Qua executor of Susanna Barnes, 1876-78, see PA2713/1/5; PA2713/4/1. Sold Hollyberry Hall estate, Allesley, 1878 (see PA2307/62/1). Clarke auctioned 30-31, Fleet Street; 19 & 20, New Street; and the "Sea Horse" public house, New Street in 1861 following a Rotherham family Chancery suit (see PA2770/26/23,28); auctioned 34, Earl Street, 1879 (PA2770/27/11). As a land valuer acting for Coventry Rural Sanitary Authority, 1876, see PA2770/68/1.I. PA2816/1/6 shows that Brown & Clarke sold Whitefriars' Lane property in 1845. Valued part of Mattersons' Cross Cheaping estate, 1868, of which he was a mortgagee from the following year until 1883 - see PA811/1/63,65. Sold 9 & 10, Burges and Bull Yard property, 1860 - see CCA/2/3/742/29,30. Sold William Steele Barnes(q.v.)' property, 1860 (see CCA/2/3/396/31.VII.N.B.). Qua share-broker, 1857, see CCA/2/3/264/36,37. Qua furniture-auctioneer, 1856, see CCA/2/3/264/37(attachment). Brown & Clarke sold a Much Park Street residence in 1843 - see CCA/2/3/314/39. Qua Wale's Charity trustee, see PA704/91/13. He was named as executor of Martha Clarke of Crick, Northamptonshire in 1853 (see CCA/2/3/13/18) and thereby acquired a share in Much Park Street property, with others obtaining more of it from 1854 (see CCA/2/3/13/30,32,34,36.III,V). For Clarke's interest in property which had been John Royle(q.v.)'s, 1873, see CCA/2/3/497/57. As a mortgage-assignee for Henry Brown's and his ribbon-manufacturing brother Thomas Brown's Bayley Lane and Earl Street premises, 1851-56, see CCA/2/3/200/39,40,43-45,48.XI. As an executor of his uncle Samuel Clarke, 1853-79, see CCA/2/3/156/12. Clarke was appointed a General Charities trustee in 1875 - see CCA/2/3/448/28.VII,30. He auctioned the "Britannia Tavern", Fleet Street in 1880 (see CCA/2/3/204/26).