Nicholas Clare (27 Aug 1950 - 15 Jul 2025)

In loving memory of Nicholas Clare who passed away peacefully at home on 15th July 2025, aged 74 years. Nick died peacefully at home on 15th July 2025, aged 74 years.
Dear husband of Gill, father to Edward and Michael and brother of Richard. Funeral service at St Michaels Church, Framlingham, on Monday 18th August at 11.30am.
Family flowers only please but donations if wished to benefit Emilie’s Charities, payable to Emilie’s Charities, may be sent to Susan Whymark Funeral Service, Moore House, 8 Fore Street, Framlingham IP13 9DY or made online via the Emilie’s Charities website: emiliescharities.org 

He was born in Manchester on 27th August 1950 and grew up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. He attended Manchester Grammar School and studied law at Liverpool University, where he met his wife, Gill. Nick and Gill were married in 1977, and lived first in Burley-in-Wharfedale, then in Kent, where their two sons were born. The family moved to Loughborough Leicestershire and have lived in Framlingham Suffolk for the past 24 years.

He both played and refereed football and was a life-long supporter of Manchester United. He enjoyed playing cricket in Lancashire, Yorkshire, where it was taken seriously, and then Sittingbourne, Kent which was reportedly more congenial. He had an encyclopaedic general knowledge and memory for facts and places that most of us had either never known or forgotten; this made him a great asset at quizzes. He enjoyed music and accumulated a collection of vinyls, tapes and cds, and friends who shared his interest, from those whom he had known since early childhood, to the U3A group in Suffolk.

He was fun to be with and had a good sense of humour. He enjoyed acting in school pantomimes at Loughborough and, more latterly for the Rendham mummers, emerging through a flaming arch, narrowly avoiding setting his beard and wig alight, during a winter production.
A keen interest in history prompted him to research family history during retirement from Royal Mail, where he had been a postman. He accumulated friends throughout his life, was a kind and generous man and was loved by his family and friends.