词条 | Edward Clarke (barrister) |
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| honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Edward George Clarke | honorific_suffix = KC | image = Sir Edward Clarke.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1841|02|15}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1931|04|26|1841|02|15}} | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = barrister and politician | known_for = }} Sir Edward George Clarke, KC (15 February 1841 – 26 April 1931) was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892. His legal career included representing Oscar Wilde in his disastrous prosecution of the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, and representing the plaintiff in the "baccarat case", during which Sir Edward cross-examined the Prince of Wales. Background and early lifeClarke was the son of J. G. Clarke of Moorgate Street, London. He was educated at King's College London. In 1859 he became a writer in India Office, but resigned in the next year, and became a law reporter. He obtained a Tancred Scholarship in 1861, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1864, joining the Home Circuit. Legal careerClarke quickly gained a high reputation at the junior bar, and made his name appearing for the defence in the two most notorious cases of 1877, securing the acquittal of his namesake Chief Inspector Clarke in the Great Scotland Yard scandal (when other senior CID detectives were convicted of corruption) and unsuccessfully defending Patrick Staunton (who had been accused of complicity in starving his sister-in-law to death) in the Penge Murder. On the back of these successes Clarke took silk in 1880, and quickly came to be recognised as one of the leading members of the bar; he became a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1882, and was knighted in 1886. He also entered Parliament as Conservative MP for Southwark at a by-election early in 1880, but being unable to hold the seat at the general election later that year he was elected instead for Plymouth. He was Solicitor-General in the Conservative administration of 1886–1892, but declined office when the party returned to power in 1895 as he would have been debarred from continuing his lucrative private practice. In 1899, Clarke found himself in total disagreement with his party over the government's South African policy, and in early February 1900 his constituency party in Plymouth called upon him to resign his seat.[1] He resigned the following day.[2] He did not contest the general election of 1900, but returned to the House as MP for the City of London in 1906; however, he offended a section of his constituents by a speech against tariff reform in the House of Commons on 12 March 1906, and shortly afterwards he resigned his seat again on grounds of health. He published a Treatise on the Law of Extradition in 1903, and several volumes of speeches (both political and legal). He also wrote a biography of Benjamin Disraeli. His autobiography, The Story of My Life, was published in 1918,[3] and a biography by Derek Walker-Smith and his grandson Edward Clarke (Life of Sir Edward Clarke) followed in 1939. Famous cases
FamilyClarke's son, Percival Clark, was a prominent lawyer in the 1920s and 1930s. His great-nephew, Edward Clarke, followed him into law and was number two to Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence in the defence team for suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.[5] His youngest son William Clarke trained as a lawyer, but became a cryptographer. References1. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Sir E. Clarke and his constituents |day_of_week=Friday |date=9 February 1900 |page_number=6 |issue=36061| }} *{{EB1911|wstitle=Clarke, Sir Edward George|volume=6|page=444}}2. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Sir Edward Clarke and his constituents|day_of_week=Saturday |date=10 February 1900 |page_number=8 |issue=36062| }} 3. ^[https://archive.org/stream/storyofmylife00claruoft#page/200/mode/2up/search/Staines Sir Edward Clarke The Story of my Life 1918] 4. ^The National Archives: "Queen's Bench: R v Leander Starr Jameson, Sir John Christopher Willoughby Bt, Henry..." TS 36/102 5. ^Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, {{ISBN|1-904027-19-9}}
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| title = Member of Parliament for Southwark | years = 1880 | with = Marcus Beresford | before = John Locke Marcus Beresford | after = Arthur Cohen Thorold Rogers }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Plymouth | years = 1880–1900 | with = Peter Stewart Macliver 1880–1885 | with2 = Sir Edward Bates, Bt 1885–1892 | with3 = Sir William Pearce, Bt 1892–1895 | with4 = Charles Harrison 1895–1898 | with5 = Sigismund Mendl 1898–1900 | before = Peter Stewart Macliver Sir Edward Bates, Bt | after = Sigismund Mendl Hon. Ivor Guest }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for City of London | years = 1906 | with = Sir Joseph Dimsdale, Bt Jan–Feb 1906 | with2 = Arthur Balfour Feb–Jun 1906 | before = Alban Gibbs Sir Joseph Dimsdale, Bt | after = Sir Frederick Banbury, Bt Arthur Balfour }}{{s-legal}}{{succession box | title = Solicitor General for England and Wales | years = 1886–1892 | before = Sir Horace Davey | after = Sir John Rigby }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, Edward George}} 19 : 1841 births|1931 deaths|Alumni of King's College London|British barristers|British Queen's Counsel|Queen's Counsel 1801–1900|Members of Lincoln's Inn|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Solicitors General for England and Wales|UK MPs 1874–80|UK MPs 1880–85|UK MPs 1885–86|UK MPs 1886–92|UK MPs 1892–95|UK MPs 1895–1900|UK MPs 1906–10|Knights Bachelor|Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom for the City of London|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom |
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