Charles Clerke (priest)

Caricature of Charles Clerke and William Jacobson

Charles Carr Clerke (30 December 1798 – 24 December 1877) was Archdeacon of Oxford from 9 March 1830, until his death.[1] He also served as rector of Milton, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire) from 1836 to 1875, Canon of Christ Church from 1845 until his death, and Sub-Dean of Christ Church from 1853 until his death.[2]

The son of Sir William Henry Clerke,[3] he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1814 at age 15; and graduating B.A. in 1818, M.A. in 1821, B.D. in 1830, canon and D.D. 1847.[4] He was the author of a large number of visitation sermons and addresses, as well as devotional texts and treatises on ecclesiastical law. Clerke was a sponsor of the Library of the Fathers.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "University Intelligence". The Times. No. 29134. London, England. 25 December 1877. p. 7.
  2. ↑ Project Canterbury
  3. ↑ "Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity" Richardson,E p194: Cambridge, CUP, 2013 ISBN 978-1-107-02677-3
  4. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Clerke, Charles Carr" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  5. ↑ Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography, (Netherton and Worth, 1892) p. 646
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