Date
Type
Information
Source
1768 to 1786
At St. Margaret's Church in the Parish of Buxted, Sussex; Occupation Rector of Buxted
BtheB050
1730
Born
At Buxted Rectory in the Parish of Buxted, Sussex
Horsfield's Sussex
31st Mar 1830
Christened
In the Parish of Buxted, Sussex
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Batch J15204-1
23rd May 1763
Married
In the Parish of Cranleigh, Surrey
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Batch M00887-1
1786
Died
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c 1835
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Horsfield's Sussex
Extract from Horsfield's History of Sussex
Edward Clarke was born at the parsonage house of Buxted, in the year 1730; his early education was superintended by Mr. Gerison, his father's curate; and after being for some time the pupil of the learned Jeremiah Markland, who was then resident at Uckfield, he became a fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge. In 1756 he was presented to the rectory of Pepper Harrow, in Middlesex; and in 1760 he left his living and visited Spain in the capacity of chaplain to Lord Bristol, Ambassador Extraordinary to Madrid. He afterwards accompanied Governor Johnstone to Minorca, in the quality of chaplain and secretary. In 1768, he no inducted to the vicarage of Willingdon and Arlington, in this county; and towards the end of the same year succeeded to the rectory of Buxted, on which he constantly resided till the period of his death, which took place in 1786. In the course of his life he published many valuable works.
Mr. Clarke left three sons and one daughter, the second of whom was Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke, the enlightened and enterprising traveller.
1929
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Buxted The Beautiful
Extract from MacDermott's Buxted the Beautiful
Edward Daniel Clarke, son of the Rev. E. Clarke, rector of Buxted, born 1769, died 1822. As a young man he travelled with a friend named Cripps through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Circassia, Asia Minor and Greece. His “Travels” were published between 1810 and 1823. He was the inventor of the gas blow-pipe, a treatise on which he published in 1819. He was appointed Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge and was regarded as one of the most learned men of his day.
5th Jun 1769
Birth of a son
In the Parish of Willingdon, Sussex
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1774
Birth of a daughter
In the Parish of Buxted, Sussex
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Batch K15204-3