PIONEER
Arthur Spottiswoode CLARKE
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| birth | .. Jan/Feb/March 1885, Pewsey, Wiltshire, ENGLAND (FreeBMD 5a 187) |
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| death | .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1952, Middlesex South, Middlesex (67y) (GRO 5f 79) |
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| marriage | (1) married in .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1915, Pewsey, Wiltshire to:
 Bessie E. (= Edith?) LENTON b. ............ A Bessie Edith LENTON was born in .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1878 in Alderbury/Salesbury, Wiltshire (identical?) |
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| marriage | (2) married on .. July/Aug/Sep 1925, Wandsworth, Surrey to:
Jean S. GALBRAITH b. .... <1895>, .......... |
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PARENTS
| father | Thomas CLARKE b. ca. 1853, Hatfield, Doncaster, Yorkshire |
| mother | Anna W. ....... b. ca. 1853, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND |
| marriage | a Thomas William CLARKE married Anna Maria LONG on .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1879 at Exeter: CONNECTION UNCERTAIN |
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LIFE
1901 CENSUS:
Thomas CLARKE (48y)
Anna W. ....... (48y)
children:
- Thos. A. (20y)(b. <1881>, Pewsey)
- Anna S. (18y)(b. <1883>)
- Arthur S. (16y)(b. <1885>, Pewsey)
- Alice M. (14y)(b. <1887>)
- Harold (12y)(b. <1889>, Pewsey)
- Mary (10y)(b. <1891>, Wandsworth, London)
recorder GRAMCO (1908-1911) (x y z)
resident recording expert of The Gramophone Company in India between 1914 and 1916 (source; Kinnear)
Arthur S. CLARKE (40y; SINGLE) engineer
+ Brenchley MITTELL; Married
SS "MAURETANIA"
dep.: 11 April 1925, Southampton
arr.: 18 April 1925, NY
business c/o The Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, NJ
Father: T. CLARKE, Bolingbroke Grove, London, SW 11
B. Mittell is mentioned at the top of letter from H. A. M. Clark with list of engineers (9 March 1954)
Arthur S. CLARKE (67y) recording engineer
+ Jean S. CLARKE (57y)
SS "STRATHMORE"
dep.: .... 1952, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
arr.: 17 June 1952, Tilbury (London), ENGLAND
Home address: 204 Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex
residence in 1927/1930/1932/1943/1952: Gwynne Lodge, 204 Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex
In British Phone Books of 1954: Jean S. Clarke, 204 Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex
NOTES
- The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings. 1899-1908 by Michael Kinnear, p. 32
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