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This
next photo is of William Clayton and his secretary James Wilder taken from a
profile of Clayton which appeared in the Jan 1900 issue of The Strand
Magazine. Philip Jose Farmer revealed William Clayton, 6th
Duke of Greystoke, had an affair with The Scarlet Pimpernel’s
granddaughter, Patricia Clarke Wildman. This union bore one child, James
Clarke Wildman. Although Clayton
offered to marry her, Patricia refused to marry him, fearing that her family
history of attempting to recreate the experiments of Victor Frankenstein
would damage Clayton’s political ambitions.
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What
Farmer was unaware of was that Patricia Clarke Wildman had fallen in love
with Richard Henry Savage, who is the subject of the second photo. Richard Henry Savage was an
adventurer, author, and soldier of fortune. Savage adopted Patricia’s
son, who was now legally James Clarke Savage. James Savage looked to Richard Savage
as his father.
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It was
later in life that James contacted his biological father, seeking to hide
out, and so changed his name to James Wilder. Due to the events recorded by
John H. Watson as “The Adventure of the Priory school,” the newly
married James Clarke Wildman was forced to flee Sherlock Holmes and changed
his name to Clark James Savage.
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It was
whilst on the run that Clark and his wife gave birth to the man we all know
as Clark Savage Jnr.
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