{"id":50043,"date":"2026-06-04T03:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50043"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:44:29","slug":"letter-tony-clarke-obituary-richard-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50043","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Tony Clarke obituary | Richard Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tony Clarke was the least stuffy of men. We were neighbours in the delightfully named hamlet of Stone-cum-Ebony, in Kent, and often spoke when putting the bins out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">When he was suddenly appointed to the new supreme court, he was the sole non-ennobled member, as his new colleagues had all been law lords. The anomaly needed rectifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tony was sent to see Garter King of Arms, who warned that the process would take several weeks unless he was prepared to follow the express procedure: \u201ccalling yourself after wherever it is you live, provided the title hasn\u2019t already been allocated\u201d. And so it was done \u2013 Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony. \u201cPiece of cake,\u201d said Tony. \u201cTook five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Clarke was the least stuffy of men. We were neighbours in the delightfully named hamlet of Stone-cum-Ebony, in Kent, and often spoke when putting the bins out. When he was suddenly appointed to the new supreme court, he was the sole non-ennobled member, as his new colleagues had all been law lords. The anomaly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[10369,4543,642,697,4775,2636],"class_list":{"0":"post-50043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-clarke","9":"tag-letter","10":"tag-obituary","11":"tag-richard","12":"tag-thomas","13":"tag-tony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}