1821–1903

Clarke was educated at Queen’s College and St. Mary Hall, Oxford, England (BA 1844, MA 1846).

On taking Holy Orders, he became successively Curate of Thorverton, and of Dawlish, Devonshire; Vicar of St. Thomas-by-Launceston, Cornwall; Head Master of the Launceston Grammar School, and Vicar of Thorverton (1875); and Hon. Secretary of the Exeter, Devon, Board of Education.

His works in­clude:

• Thoughts in Verse from a Village Churchman’s Note Book, 1848
• Services of Song for Christmas, Passiontide, Ascension, Harvest, etc.
• Constructive Exercise Book for Latin Verbs, 1869
• A Service for Children, Adapted to the Course of the Church Year, 1870
• Memorial Tributes Inscribed from Time to Time to Members of the Royal Family of England, 1894
• Festival and Other Hymns for Church Tides (Skeffington, 1896)

• Hayden & Newton
• Julian, pp. 235–36, 1621–22

1. All Hail, All Hail to the Natal Day
2. Blessed and Holy Three
3. Forth to the Waving Seas
4. Framer of the Light
5. God Is Gone Up
6. Great Giver of All Good, to Thee Again
7. In All Thou Didst While Here on Earth
8. In Humble Adoration
9. Jesus, on This Blessed Morn
10. Lord, Most Holy, God Most Mighty
11. Lord of All Creation
12. Lord of the New Creation
13. Now a New Year Opens
14. O Dark and Dreary Day
15. O Lord, It Is a Joyful Thing
16. O Thou Who Dwellest in Eternity
17. Once More the Sheaves Are Gathered
18. Through Dangers of the Night
19. Virgin Did Come, A