Roger Simon Woodchurch Clarke

Roger Simon Woodchurch Clarke (1903- )

Born the son of C. S. Clake

1961 Bio note. 'LEADERS OF BRITISH INDUSTRY. R. S. W. Clarke Mr. Clarke succeeded Lord Sinclair of Cleeve as chairman of The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland Ltd, alter the Annual General Meeting in 1959. Imperial is the biggest supplier of cigarettes and pipe tobacco in Britain. Its chairman is a member of the fourth generation of the old tobacco firm of William Clarke and Son, which was founded in 1830 and joined Imperial on its foundation in 1901. His father, the late Mr. C. S. Clarke, was the first leaf manager of Imperial and a member of the board and of the executive committee of directors. Roger Simon Woodchurch Clarke was born in 1903 and was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth Naval Colleges. He joined the company in 1922 and until 1949 served with the W. D. and H. O. Wills branch, becoming a member of its management in 1945. He was appointed a director of Imperial in 1944, a member of the executive committee of directors in 1949, and was elected deputy chairman in 1958. Mr. Clarke makes periodic visits to the company's branches, including its leaf tobacco buying organisations abroad, and he returned at the end of May from his first visit as chairman to the company's African leaf tobacco buying organisation in Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Mr. Clarke is interested in education and is on the Council of the University of Bristol. He is a former Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers. Married, Mr. Clarke lives at Codrington, near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire'

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