Somers Clarke

George Somers Clarke was an architect and English Egyptologist who worked on the restoration and design of churches and at a number of sites throughout Egypt, notably in El Kab, where he built a mud brick house. He was the son of solicitor Somers C. and Sarah Blaker in Brighton, where he was born and privately educated. Clarke began as an apprentice to the law for five years before beginning work with Sir G. Gilbert Scott. He was one of the pupils of Sir Charles Barry, who was also a British architect.