406:, Clarke was discreet. His lifelong partner was Pat Walker (Edward George Walker, 1902–1999), whom Clarke employed as his secretary. By at least 1939 they were living together in Clarke's house in Barnet, which Clarke called Belfield House, but they had both been on the electoral register at 112 Newington Causeway in 1929. After Clarke's death, Walker remained at Belfield House, but after the latter's death in 1999, it was left to St Catharine's College. The college has since sold the house, and it is now a nursery, Belfield Montessori.
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Clarke was one of the founders of the civil-rights organization the
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329:. Clarke hosted garden parties at his house in
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1075:. University of California Press. p. 37.
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