Arthur Frederic Clarke (22 December 1848 – 4 January 1932Deaths The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 06, 1932; pg. 1; Issue 46023) was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.‘CLARKE, Rev. Arthur Frederic’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 25 June 2013 He was educated at Charterhouse”List of Carthusians, 1800 to 1879” Parish, W.D: Lewes : Farncombe and Co., 1879 p48 and Trinity College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1874.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 London: Oxford University Press, 1929 p238 After curacies at Beverley, Linthorpe, Alvechurch and Leek Wootton‘CHURCH NEWS’ The Blackburn Standard: Darwen Observer, and North-East Lancashire Advertiser (Blackburn, England), Saturday, December 03, 1881; pg. 2; Issue 2406 he was VicarParish Records of CockerhamNational Archives from 1881‘Multiple News Items’ The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, December 08, 1881; pg. 2; Issue 34151 untilLondon Gazette 1905; and Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1896 to 1905.‘PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS’ The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (Bristol, England), Friday, January 3, 1896 He was then Vicar of Rochdale from 1905British History on-line to 1910; its Rural Dean from 1905 to 1910; and its Archdeacon from 1910 to 1919. During this period he was also an honorary chaplain to the forces. A bell at St Andrew, Singapore is dedicated to him.TTC
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