| Administrative History | Following the retirement of the House Porter Isaac Charlton, who had been with the Society 50 years, the Officers sought to appoint a replacement. John Clarke and his wife (who would act as Upper Housemaid) were appointed to start on 1 July 1891.
On the evening of the 3 July, the assistant clerk Francis Everard Brown had found the newly appointed porter lying intoxicated on the doormat. So inebriated was Clarke that he had to be carried to his rooms in the basement by Brown and Mrs Clarke. Clarke was dismissed. |