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Mary Anne Clarke often appears on the Poetry Society’s Young Poets’ Network, and has won their Cape Farewell and Edith Sitwell prizes. She has been commended for the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, Ledbury and Basil Bunting awards, and longlisted for the Christopher Tower Prize. Mary Anne was a Young Producer for both the Southbank ...
CLARKE, MARY ANNE ( c. 1776–1852), mistress of Frederick duke of York, second son of George III., was born either in London or at Oxford. Her father, whose name was Thompson, seems to have been a tradesman in rather humble circumstances. She married before she was eighteen, but Mr Clarke, the proprietor of a stonemasonry business, became ...
Biography. Mary Anne (Farquhar) Clarke was born 3 April 1776 in London, England and she passed away at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on 21 June 1852, according to the Dictionary of National Biography (1887). Mary Anne Clarke is remembered chiefly for three things: Her love affair with The Duke of York and second-eldest son of King George III, Prince ...
In Mary Anne Daphne du Maurier reconstructs as nearly as possible the life of her Great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, who lived, for a year or two of splendour, 'under the protection' of H.R.H. the Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of the Army during the Napoleonic wars. From all the available evidence the writer introduces us to a ...
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Mary Anne Clarke was mistress to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, who was second son to George III of the United Kingdom. She liked the good life and the expense of pleasing her was a bit pricey even for the son of a king, which led to sales of army commissions and other corruption that caused a scandal in 1809 and resulted in his resignation from his position as Commander-in-Chief ...
Mary Ann Clarke attempted to blackmail her ex-lover, the Duke of York — who led the British army — by threatening to publish his letters. Sounds similar to Wellington but it takes a turn: His political enemies took notice, and they discovered that Mary Ann was selling army commissions (meaning, men who wanted a military rank or promotion would pay off Clarke, who would then demand that the ...
