Newspaper clipping about the life of Janet, Lady Clarke and particularly about the story of The Ashes which took place at Rupertswood, her home near Sunbury. A cricket match was played between the Clarke household and the visiting English team. The English team lost and Lady Clarke, as a joke, is said to have presented the captain, Ivo Bligh, with the little urn containing some ashes. Ivo Bligh subsequently married the Clarke children's governess, Florence Morphy.
There is an East Melbourne connection to the story, not only as the place where the Clarke's maintained their city residence, Cliveden, but through Ivo Bligh and Florence Morphy who, on a later visit to Melbourne and as a married couple, lived for a short time at Hazelwell, 121 Powlett Street.
