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Clarke, Matthew, ca. 1630-1708
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ca. 1630-1708
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CLARKE, MATTHEW, son of Rev. Matthew Clarke, Rector of Bitterley, Shropshire, and of St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London; nephew of Rev. Thomas Hill DD, Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm. (having previously been at Charterhouse Sch. ); KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1648, adm. pens. 20 May 1648, scholar 1649, matr. Mich. 1651; BA 1651/2; MA 1655; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1653 - c. 1658; Chaplain to Col. Hacker’s Regt., Scotland; Rector of Narborough, Leics., 28 May 1658 until ejection under Act of Uniformity of 1662; became a nonconformist preacher in Leicestershire; thrice imprisoned in Leicester Gaol “for the crime of preaching”; licensed as presbyterian preacher at Market Harborough, Leics., 29 May 1672; retired to Norwich, where he lived with his daughter; an oriental scholar of some distinction; m.; d. 1708, aged 78. DNB.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.