Godfrey Clarke

Godfrey Clarke (born c. 1684 – 1734), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1734.

[2] He was educated at Rugby School in 1690 and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 25 June 1695, aged 16.

He was appointed deputy-lieutenant in 1702, and was High Sheriff of Derbyshire for the year 1705 to 1706.

[4] Clarke was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Derbyshire at the 1710 general election.

[4] Clarke was returned unopposed at the [British general election, 1715|1715 general election and voted against the Government in 1719 on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts and the Peerage Bill.