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Dad was a lover of words, a pedant, a protector, a family man, a patient husband and father, an absolute hoot, welded to his armchair with the paper, a gardener, a walker, an adventurer, a Christian, a kind ear, a true gent, a great chef, kind soul… a man of many fine attributes, stories and a life well lived. Please do share your stories on this condolences page, so we can hear and hold dear all your marvellous stories and memories of Dad / Rick / Nobby He passed away peacefully and when he’d decided it was time.

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Lovely Nobby - a gent, a total professional, doing a demanding job with calm charm and a twinkle, the safest of safe pairs of hands. Go well, Nobby.

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When you join the FT as I did from other papers - in my case the Daily Express - you are struck by a sense of trust and mutual respect. People of like minds and often like hearts. At the centre of this circle were people like Nobby who personified much of what the FT was about ( he'd hate me saying this- " Bollocks Alain". ) He was a joy to work with, more than a safe pair of hands. He'd go off on one occasionally and that too was part of his charm: he never bore a grudge, never malicious even if thought you were behaving like a twat. Really lovely guy. A dad to be proud of.

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I knew Nobby first as a calm voice on the end of the phone - a source of wry good sense when I was FT correspondent in Brussels and Milan - but I got to know him better when I returned to London as a completely inexperienced foreign news editor, “running” a newsdesk full of seasoned veterans in the late 1990s. Nobby was a supportive, steady source of institutional knowledge and editorial skill. His presence was immensely reassuring and with his humour and tact, he managed to put me right on many occasions without putting me down. My condolences to his family.

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Nobby was a sweet, good man - brilliant at defusing tense moments with a wry comment or a quiet joke. And he and I had a special bond. In 1975, he and I found ourselves going with our pregnant wives to the same Natural Childbirth class in North London. We were invited to squeeze our knees as hard as we could so as to get a sense of what contractions might feel like, and we examined a large doll in a thoughtful kind of way. Whenever we met thereafter, we would ask each other about the wellbeing of our two daughters, both of whom we agreed had turned out to be lovely.

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Amid all the dramas,crises and histrionics which are part of global newspaper daily life, there are those within such an organisation who - without fuss or ego - unobtrusively and indispensably both steer and steady the ship. Nobby's calm (well mostly) competence in his various roles over 30 years, and the help and encouragement he gave to newbies, was an exemplar. But I will remember Nobby best for the bubbling sense of humour, the fund of stories and the spirited manner of their telling. There were few more lively companions with whom to enjoy a post-mayhem beer. We'll miss you Nobby, in many ways. And to say that the FT - and particularly the foreign side of which you were such a stalwart editor - owes you greatly is best described as understatement. Cheers and sleep easy, JohnG

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From Tim Burt Financial Times, 1988-2005 At the Financial Times, Nobby Clarke symbolised the integrity that was core to the newspaper. He was, for many years, a mainstay of the FT’s foreign editing team. He handled with skill and patience both foreign correspondents and their copy, which were often irrational and opaque in equal measure. Nobby was an expert in the government machinations and policies of all manner of far-flung places, saving many reporters from making basic mistakes on deadline. More important, he was kind. Even when a piece of copy was execrable, Nobby would let the writer know without humiliating them. But he was also tough. He would not stand for sloppiness in the FT. So as an editor, he was trusted totally to edit, headline and lay out pages that were models of FT precision. The traits that made him a great editor also made him a great person. He nurtured and encouraged other journalists, reminding eager would-be foreign correspondents to play the long game. He helped countless others navigate the oddities of the FT newsrooms, including the ‘Blue Lagoon’ that was the beating heart of Bracken House or the ‘U-bend of power’ at Southwark Bridge. To many, he was simply a mentor for journalistic progress. Together with his desk partner Chris Ennis, Nobby was part of a formidable page-editing double-act that marshalled FT coverage of great events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Tiananmen Square. Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, Nobby did not take himself seriously. And he loved the FT’s memorable snafus. These included, in one edition, publishing a huge picture of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake alongside a long feature about the rebuilding of war-torn Germany. Another was the legendary picture caption on a story about John Selwyn Gummer, then minister of agriculture, visiting a country show at the height of the BSE crisis. The picture showed Gummer and his wife standing either side of a prize-winning cow and was thus captioned ‘Mr and Mrs Gummer at the east of England showground’. Regrettably, a miscommunication between caption-writer and picture desk left the real Mrs Gummer cropped from the photo when it appeared in the next day’s newspaper…. Best of all, Nobby adored the internal memo when the FT began printing in America, instructing sub-editors to avoid the phrase ‘beating off’ in headlines about companies trying to thwart hostile bids. Nobby’s rare combination of patience, integrity, kindness and his sense of fun extended outside the newsroom. Hosting colleagues at home in Brockley, he would regale them with tales of scrapes as a young reporter in the Middle East or the numerous misunderstandings with neighbours at his beloved cottage in northern France. He was devoted to Hilary and his daughters Jo and Kate, whom he loved dearly, taking pride in their own careers and their wider families. He invested the same pride, care and affection in retirement in Dorset, becoming a mainstay of the community just as he was at the FT. Nobby will be missed sorely by all those lucky enough to have worked with him.

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