Education
Eton College.
Eton College.
Educated at Eton College, Clarke was commissioned into the 57th Regiment of Foot in 1856. He rose to become Commandant-General of the Colonial Forces of the Cape of Good Hope between 1880 and 1882. He held a series of administrative roles before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1893 (renamed "the Madras Command of the Indian Army" in 1895).
He was appointed to the command of the Sixth Army Corps in the Second Boer War in South Africa in December 1899.
He served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1899 until 1903 when he became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta: he retired in 1907. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Clarke of Dunham Lodge on 25 April 1899.