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DESCRIPTION: Black cloth spine with line drawing illustrated paper covered boards. Red titles to spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and creased spine ends. Tightly bound. Prev owners name to ffep " Elisabeth Cook" see provenance. Lightly toned pages with a few very minor marks to extreme page edges from spotted text block edge DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 145. Size: 8vo 21cm by 14cm. PROVENANCE: Elisabeth Cook. 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 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. 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. N° de ref. del artículo 8780

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