George Clark (29 June 1810 – 11 December 1874) was
Archdeacon of St David's
The Archdeacon of St Davids is a senior cleric in the Church in Wales' Diocese of St Davids. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of St Davids, one of three archdeaconries in the ...
from 1867 until his death.
Clark was born in the parish of
St Dunstan-in-the-West
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and educated at
University College, Oxford
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. He was
Vicar
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of
Cantley in
Yorkshire
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from 1845 to 1854; and
Rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
Tenby
Tenby ( cy, Dinbych-y-pysgod, lit=fortlet of the fish) is both a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the western side of Carmarthen Bay, and a local government community.
Notable features include of sandy beaches and the Pembroke ...
from 1854 to 1867.
He died suddenly after contracting
pneumonia
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.
["Death of the Archdeacon of St Davids", '']Liverpool Mercury
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'' (Liverpool, England), 12 December 1874.
References
Archdeacons of St Davids
Church in Wales archdeacons
19th-century English Anglican priests
1810 births
1874 deaths
Alumni of University College, Oxford
People from the City of London
Deaths from pneumonia in Wales
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