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Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscription and signature to false title and further signature to forward. DESCRIPTION: White illustrated DJ over red cloth with gilt illustration to front. Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine DJ Condition: Very Good+: Very minor wear to upper and lower corners and spine ends Pages xiii, 226. Size: 16mo 17.5cm by 24cm. PROVENANCE: Inscription: Toby [Sir Tobias Clarke]. Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. (1939 - 2019)Son of Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. and Elisabeth Cook. Married Charlotte Walter, daughter of Roderick Walter in 1971 and later married Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair, daughter of Somerset Struben de Chair and Margaret Patricia Field-Hart, in 1984. Named Charles Mansfield Clarke at birth he changed his name to Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke in 1962. Educated at Eton, Christ Church, Sorbonne and Graduate Business School, New York University. He succeeded as the 6th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge in 1973. Offices held: Vice-president of the London branch of Bankers Trust Company of New York, editor and founder of The Baronets Journal, Associate director of the Swiss Bank Corporation London and chairman of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Through his grandmother, Elfrida Roosevelt (Lady Clarke, wife of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, Bt. CBE) he was related to U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was his first cousin, three times removed. He was also the second cousin, three times removed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Elisabeth Cook ( - 1967)Daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook. Married Colin Leiter Campbell and subsequently Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. , son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt, in 1938. Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. (1906 - 1949)Son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt. Married, Frances Mary Powys Sketchley, daughter of Major Frederick Powys Sketchley, in 1931 (divorced in 1936). Married, Elisabeth Cook, daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook, in 1938. Married Constance Elizabeth Gibbs, daughter of Herbert Gray Gibbs, 1947 (divorced in 1953). Educated at Eton and Christ Church. Served with the British Embassy to Washington between 1941 and 1944 and the Foreign Office between 1944 and 1946. Succeeded as the 5th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge 1949. BOOK RESUME: Daughter of an Empire is a family history originally written by Marie Denaro, 1880-1959, in the 1950s, edited and re-published Þfty years later by her great nephew, David Arrigo. The script is as faithful to the original as possible. The inclusion of over 300 period illustrations make it a unique record of Anglo-Maltese life during the 19th and 20th centuries. This publication has been made possible by the efforts of four cousins, all direct descendants of Edward Tancred Agius, a prominent entrepreneur of Malta who established himself in London in 1872. He founded a business empire, and took Malta to all parts of the British Empire and beyond. Today there are over 300 direct descendants of Edward Tancred Agius and Maria Concetta (n e Muscat). An invaluable source of reference to any library with a Malta connection, and a Þne book to grace any drawing room coffee table, with over 300 fascinating period portrait and other photographs. Marie Denaro describes in detail her childhood in a large house in Hampstead at the turn of the century, the agony of having Þve brothers at the front during the Great War, and the loss of her own son during WWII. She travelled extensively, lived in Kenya during the last world war. She reproduces moving letters from her beloved son Arthur, stationed in Somaliland, North Africa and Þnally Europe where he was killed in action. The four cousins, Edward de Bono, Marcus Agius, Arthur Denaro and David Arrigo, have each contributed a piece to bring Marie Denaros tale into the 21 st Century. N° de ref. del artículo 8759
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