Alured Clarke, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Alured Clarke

British Field Marshal

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1744

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1832

Profession: military personnel, civil servant

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sir Alured Clarke (24 November 1744 – 16 September 1832) was a British army officer.
He took charge of all British troops in Georgia in May 1780 and was then deployed to Philadelphia to supervise the evacuation of British prisoners of war at the closing stages of the American Revolutionary War.
He went on to be Governor of Jamaica and then lieutenant-governor of Lower Canada in which role he had responsibility for implementing the Constitutional Act 1791.
He was then sent to India where he became Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, then briefly Governor-General of India and finally Commander-in-Chief of India during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.