Robert George Clarke

Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on La Reconnais[s]ance in Trindidad as executor of John Heriot (q.v.).

1. Almost certainly Robert George Clarke, the publisher of the London Gazette. "July 8 [1837]. [Death] Aged 71, Mary, wife of Robert George Clarke, esq. of Parliament-st. Printer of the London Gazette." Will of Robert George Clarke of Westminster proved 25/10/1839, which gives him as of 45 Parliament Street.

2. John Heriot is the same man as the comptroller of the Royal Hospital Chelsea whose will was proved 24/08/1833. Heriot's obituary, which states that he was appointed Secretary to the Sierra Leone Company in 1791 as well as the founder of The Sun newspaper in 1792, shows him as having a daughter in Trinidad who also died in 1833. Heriot had been paymaster of the Windwards and Leewards in the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars.

T71/894 Trinidad 1470A&B, which gives him as Rob. G. Clarke.

1. Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 162 p. 211 (August 1837). PROB 11/1917.

2. PROB 11/1820, in which Robert George Clarke's address is illegible but appears to be 'Fraser Street' ; Annual Biography and Obituary Vol. 18 (1834) pp. 41-51.