Lovell Clarke Explained

Herbert Lovell Clarke (15 August 1881 - 4 April 1962) was Archdeacon of Leeds^[1] from 1940 until 1950.

Clarke was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family: his father was the first Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne.^[2] He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St John's College, Cambridge.^[3] He was Assistant Missioner at Lady Margaret Church, Walworth then a Curate at Wimbledon. He was Vicar of All Saints' Church, Nottingham^[4] from 1913 until 1923,^[5] during which time he also served with the Sherwood Foresters.^[6] Later he was Vicar of Armley from 1923 to 1933; Rector of Barwick-in-Elmet from 1933 to 1942;^[7] Rural Dean of Whitkirk from 1938 to 1943;^[8] and Vicar of Horsforth from 1944 to 1951.^[9]

Notes and References

1. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3646835/Every-family-has-a-secret-including-ours.html Telegraph on-line
2. Book: Grant, James. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080015b.htm. Clarke, Henry Lowther (1850 - 1926). Australian Dictionary of Biography. 8. Melbourne University Press. 1981. 14–15.
3. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FPhotographs%2F10%2F48%20photo%20b Janus
4. http://www.nottinghamchurches.org/assets/PublicationPage-142/Other-PublicationsAll-Saints-History---John-Weller-2014-10-28.pdf Nottingham Churches
5. http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/nottingham-all-saints/hincumb.php Southwell Churches
6. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C684175 National Archives
7. http://www.barwickinelmethistoricalsociety.com/7270.html Local historical society
8. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
9. ‘CLARKE, Ven. Herbert Lovell’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 November 2015