Somers Clarke
George Somers Clarke was an architect and English Egyptologist who worked on the restoration and design of churches and at a number of sites throughout Egypt, notably in El Kab, where he built a house. He was born in Brighton.
As an architect he entered the offices of Sir Gilbert Scott and later worked in partnership with John Micklethwaite from offices at 15 Dean's Yard, Westminster, London. He was Surveyor of the Fabric of [St Paul's Cathedral] from 1897 to 1906.
File:Reid's Hotel and Surrounding Landscape, from Funchal, Madeira, by Sarah Angelina Acland, c.1910.jpg|thumb|View of Reid's Hotel in Funchal, Madeira, photographed by Sarah Angelina Acland
After his retirement Clarke continued to live in Egypt and died in Mahamid in August 1926.
Works
- 1965 Mountains, Hildenborough, Kent
- 1872–78 Wyfold Court, Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire
- 1874–75 St Martin's parish church, Lewes Road, Brighton, the largest church in Brighton, complete except proposed saddle-back tower. Spectacular pulpit based on the Sacrament House in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg.
- 1875 scheme for remodelling and extending St Peter's Church, Brighton
- 1879 St Nicholas parish church, Kiddington, Oxfordshire: vestry and organ loft
- 1885 Parish church of St John The Divine, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
- 1885 Church at Wimbledon
- 1889 St Mary's Church, Potton, Bedfordshire
- 1890 St Peter's parish church, Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire: restoration
- 1891 Reid's Palace Hotel, Funchal, Madeira
- 1892 St Saviour's parish church, Folkestone, Kent
- 1892 designs for wall paintings by C.E. Kempe in St Nicholas' Church, Brighton
- 1893 The Frank James Memorial Hospital, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
- 1900–06 St Peter's parish church, Brighton: new chancel with eleven-light east window
- 1910 Chichester Cathedral: reredos
- SS Philip & James parish church, Oxford: reredos