Clinker, Humphry, the hero of Smollett's novel, a poor waif, reduced to want, who attracts the notice of Mr. Bramble, marries Mrs. Bramble's maid, and proves a natural son of Mr. Bramble.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Climacteric, the Grand * Clinton, George