The Ven Charles Philip Stewart Clarke, MA was an eminent Anglican priest and author[1] in the middle third of the 20th century.
He was born in 1871 and educated at Clifton College[2] and Christ Church, Oxford.[3] Ordained in 1895,[4] he was Head of the Christ Church (Oxford) Mission in Poplar until 1908. He held incumbencies at Fenton, High Wycombe, Donhead St Andrew, North Stoneham and Trotton[5] after which he was Archdeacon of Chichester from 1934 until 1946; and a Canon Residentiary at the cathedral from 1936. He retired from both posts in 1946 and died a year later on 18 December 1947.[6]
Clarke was married in 1909 to Madeleine Brooke, daughter of John and Lady Wilhelmina Brooke of Haughton Hall, and had a son and two daughters.
Works
- Everyman's Book of Saints. [With plates] (1914)
- Church History from Nero to Constantine (1920)
- St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp (1930)
- Saints and Heroes of the Christian Church. [With portraits] (1931)
- The Oxford Movement and after (1932)
- Bishop Hobart and the Oxford Movement (1933)
- The Case of the Church of England against Rome (1937)
- The Via Media. Being a vindication of the faith and order of the Church of England, etc. (1937)
- Bishop Chandler. A Memoir. [With a portrait] (1940)
Posthumous
- Short History of the Christian Church, etc. (New edition) (1948, 3rd edition 1957)
- Roman Claims: A Discussion by an English Churchman (1948)
Notes
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