sheriff Clarke 7.10.1803 at Norwich
See Bury & Norwich Post 7.9.1803 and 14.9.1803 Edward Rigby & Joseph Clarke sheriffs. Clarke was a wholesale linendraper and a director of the Norwich Insurance Company from 1809 (newspaper ads). A Joseph Clarke of Norwich subscr 1782 to Hancock's Doctrine of Eclipses. A Joseph Clarke haberdasher, hosier & hatter took apprentices in 1784 and 1790. With his wife Elizabeth (nee Bell) he baptised 3 children at St Andrews Norwich 1786 to 1789, and in 1802 Joseph Clarke merchant of Norwich voted for Fellowes and Smith against Windham & Frere