Sir Humphrey Clarke, 5th Baronet
Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Baronet, was an English diplomat.
Early life
Clarke was born on 6 July 1906, in London, United Kingdom. He was the son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Baronet and Elfrida Roosevelt. Humphrey had two younger brothers, Alfred Roosevelt Orme Clarke, and Charles Frederick Orme Clarke. His father was a barrister who had inherited the baronetcy from his uncle, General Sir Charles Clarke, 3rd Baronet, in 1932.His paternal grandparents were Frederick Clarke and Adelaide Catherine Kerrison. His maternal grandparents were Alfred Roosevelt and Katherine Lowell. Through his mother, he was a first cousin, twice removed from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and a second cousin, twice removed from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He was educated at Eton College, where he was Captain of the Oppidans, and Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
Sir Humphrey was with the British Embassy in Washington between 1941 and 1944. He was with the Foreign Office between 1944 and 1946. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge, co. Norfolk on 31 March 1949.Personal life
On 12 June 1931, Clarke was married to Frances Mary Powys Sketchley, a daughter of Maj. Frederick Powys Sketchley. They divorced in 1936.On 1 September 1938, he married Elisabeth Irene Campbell, the daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook of Tulsa, Oklahoma and former wife of Colin Leiter Campbell. They were the parents of:
- Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Baronet, who married Charlotte Walter, daughter of Roderick Walter, in 1971. They divorced in 1979 and he married Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair, daughter of Somerset de Chair and Margaret Patricia Field-Hart, in 1984.
- Orme Roosevelt Clarke, who married Joanna Valentine Schuster, daughter of Maj. John Schuster and Hon. Lorna Frances Hermon-Hodge, in 1971. They divorced in 1989 and he married Christine V. O'Flaherty, daughter of J. G. O'Flaherty, in 1991.