Estate owner and art collector.
Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 9th Baronet
1764 - 1832
This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.
Biographical notes
Slavery connections
Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 9th Baronet, was a major slave‐owner in Jamaica, with 10 estates there. His executors claimed compensation for 2000 enslaved people in the 1830s.
LBS records that his grandfather, Sir Simon Clarke, 7th Baronet, was a slave-owner and major money-lender in Jamaica: ‘He left his real estate (i.e. property consisting of land or buildings in the UK) and estates and enslaved people in Jamaica to his eldest son also Simon Haughton Clarke’. (UCL Department of History, ‘Sir Simon Clarke 7th Bart.’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146646377> and ‘Sir Simon Clarke 6th Bart.’, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146638939> accessed 29 July 2021.)
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MSS. W. Ind. s. 70, from Dame Anne Clark to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 1798, includes lease and release of a 96-acre plantation in Hanover and Westmoreland, Jamaica, with 83 enslaved people.
Abolition connections
No known connections with abolition.
National Gallery painting connections
Former owner: NG purchased from Clark in 1840: NG176–177.
Bibliography
History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History, 'Sir Simon Haughton Clarke 9th Bart', in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1853282328
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Paintings previously owned by Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 9th Baronet
Saint Mary Magdalene is here depicted with eyes raised heavenward, a sign of her devotion and penance. The Gospels describe Mary of Magdala as one of Christ’s followers, a witness to his burial and resurrection. Mary Magdalene was later identified with another biblical figure, an unnamed woman un...
On display elsewhere
The infant Christ is shown greeting his cousin, John the Baptist, who comes bearing a goldfinch, an emblem of Christ’s suffering and death. Saint Joseph is seen behind the Virgin Mary to the right; Zacharias is behind his wife Saint Elizabeth to the left, where another saint, perhaps Francis, als...
Not on display
Saint John the Baptist stands in a rocky landscape, a reference to the wilderness in which he lived as a young man, dressed in a camel-hair tunic and eating only locusts and honey.He embraces a lamb, a symbol of Christ’s sacrifice, and points towards heaven. According to the Gospel, when Saint Jo...
Not on display