As members may know, before the editions of Stelten and Milner in the 1990s, the last English translation of Vegetius was Military Institutions of Vegetius by Lieutenant John Clarke, published in 1767. Little is generally known of John Clarke but I have been doing some research and can identify him and give an account of his career and family background. My findings have been published in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, the reference being:
Michael King Macdona, ‘Lieutenant John Clarke: An Eighteenth-Century Translator of Vegetius’, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 95 (2017), 119-140.
I have uploaded the article to Academia.edu, the reference there being:
https://www.academia.edu/35432676/LI...OR_OF_VEGETIUS