Sir Alfred William Clapham, CBE, FBA (1883 – 1950) was a British scholar of Romanesque architecture.
In 1912 Clapham joined the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) where he was successively Editor, Secretary, and Commissioner.
[2] In 1921 he published a major survey in the Antiquaries Journal on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – the result of his military service in Egypt and Palestine with the Royal Sussex Regiment during the First World War.
[3] His principal work was with the Royal Commission, being a significant contributor to the reports on Essex, Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Middlesex, London, Hertfordshire, Westmorland, and Oxford.
Photographs by Sir Alfred William Clapham are held at the Conway Library in the Courtauld, London, and are being digitised.