16-911: John Clarke may refer to: Arts [ edit ] John Clarke Whitfield (1770–1836), English organist and composer John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana John S. Clarke (1885–1959), British lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert Bryan Forbes or John Theobald Clarke (1926–2013), English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist John Clarke (actor) (1931–2019), American soap opera actor from Days of Our Lives John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet John Clem Clarke (1937–2021), American painter and graphic artist John Clarke (satirist) (1948–2017), New Zealand/Australian satirist and actor John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), British performance poet, active since
32-432: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Clarke Whitfield John Clarke-Whitfeld (13 December 1770 – 22 February 1836) was an English organist and composer . He was born John Clarke at Gloucester , and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes . In 1789 he was appointed organist of the parish church at Ludlow . Four years later he took
48-619: The oratorios of Handel , which he was the first to present to the public with a complete pianoforte accompaniment. On 3 September 1789 John Clarke married Susannah Grainger (born 1768) in Worcester . Their son Henry John Whitfeld (1808–1855) became an alumnus of Downing College, Cambridge and the vicar of Granborough , Buckinghamshire . Henry J. Whitfeld was the author of Scilly and its Legends (1852) and Rambles in Devonshire (1854). John C. Clarke John C. Clarke
64-1114: The Anglican Church of Canada John Clarke (dean of Wells) (born 1952), Dean of Wells 2004–15 Science, medicine and academia [ edit ] John Clarke (provost) (died 1781), provost of Oriel College, Oxford John Henry Clarke (1853–1931), English classical homeopath John Mason Clarke (1857–1925), American paleontologist from New York John L. Clarke (1905–1991), served as president of Ricks College John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies John Frederick Clarke (1927–2013), English aeronautical engineer John Clarke (physician, 1582–1653) , English physician John Clarke (physician, 1761–1815) , English physician and obstetrician John Clarke (physicist) (born 1942), English physicist at University of California at Berkeley John Clarke (mountaineer) (1945–2003), Canadian mountaineer, explorer and wilderness educator John R. Clarke (scientist) (born 1945), serves as Scientific Director at
80-983: The British and Spanish armies John Thomas Clarke (1868–1947), head of the Canadian military medical service John Clarke (general) , American general in the Creek War from Georgia Religion [ edit ] John Clarke (Baptist minister) (1609–1676), co-founder of Rhode Island John Clarke (dean of Salisbury) (1682–1757), dean of Salisbury Cathedral, mathematician and natural philosopher John Clarke (Congregationalist minister) (1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts John Clarke (Baptist missionary) (1802–1879), author of Specimens of Dialects J. Richard Clarke (born 1927), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints John Clarke (bishop) (born 1938), retired bishop of
96-655: The House of Commons between 1653 and 1660, and fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland John Creemer Clarke (1821–1895), British Member of Parliament United States [ edit ] John Hopkins Clarke (1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852 John Clarke (Michigan politician) (1797–1876), American businessman, farmer, and politician John Jones Clarke (1803–1887), American politician in
112-921: The Massachusetts legislature John C. Clarke (1831–1906), American politician in the Wisconsin legislature John Blades Clarke (1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876 John Proctor Clarke (1856–1932), judge in New York State John Hessin Clarke (1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934 John Clark (Georgia governor) (sometimes spelled Clarke; 1766–1832), Governor of Georgia from 1819 to 1823 Military [ edit ] Sir John Clarke (British army officer) (1787–1854), officer in
128-575: The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty New Zealand [ edit ] John Clarke (public servant) , New Zealand public servant United Kingdom [ edit ] John Clarke (fl. 1601) , MP for Haslemere John Clarke (died 1675) , English landowner and politician Richard Cromwell or John Clarke (1626–1712), second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland John Clarke (Roundhead) (fl. 1648–1681), English politician who sat in
144-1790: The United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit John R. Clarke (historian) , Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin John T. Clarke , (born 1952), American astronomer Sports [ edit ] John Erskine Clarke (1827–1920), British rower and clergyman who founded the first parish magazine John Clarke (Australian cricketer) (1829–1872) John Clarke (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1890s), footballer who played for Bury, Blackpool and Luton Town John Clarke (English footballer) (fl. 1910s–1920s), English football forward John Clarke (rugby league) (fl. 1930s–1940s), Australian rugby league player John Clarke (cricketer, born 1948) , English cricketer John Clarke (rugby union) (born 1975), New Zealand-born Samoan rugby union player John Clarke (Gaelic footballer) (fl. 2000s), Gaelic footballer for Down John Clarke (sailor) (1934–2022), Canadian Olympic sailor John Clarke (hurler) , Irish hurler John Clarke (footballer, born 2004) , English footballer Other [ edit ] John Clarke (bushranger) (c. 1846–1867), Australian bushranger John N. Clarke , United Nations official See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with John Clarke John Clark (disambiguation) Jack Clarke (disambiguation) Jackie Clarke (disambiguation) Jon Clarke (disambiguation) John Clerk (disambiguation) John Clerke (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
160-492: The best of them are four volumes of anthems, the first three published in 1805, and the fourth soon after his appointment at Hereford Cathedral. He also composed a great number of songs, one of which--"Bird of the Wilderness," written to some well-known verses by James Hogg , the "Ettrick Shepherd"—attained a high degree of popularity but the great work of his life was the publication, in a popular and eminently useful form, of
176-469: The degree of Mus. Bac. at Cambridge , and in 1795 he was chosen as organist of Armagh cathedral, whence he removed in the same year to Dublin, with the appointments of organist and master of the children at St Patrick's Cathedral and Christchurch. Driven from Ireland by the rebellion of 1798 , he accepted the post of organist at Trinity and St John's Colleges, Cambridge,. He took the degree of Mus. Doc. at Cambridge in 1799, and in 1810 proceeded to
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#1732797440005192-956: The late 1970s John Clarke (museum curator) (1954–2020), British museum curator, expert in Ladakhi and Tibetan metalwork Business [ edit ] John Clarke, whaler and one of the discoverers of Jan Mayen John Clarke (businessman) (1773–1846), American businessman from Saratoga Springs, New York John Clarke (fur trader) (1781–1852), Hudson's Bay Company fur trader Government and politics [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] John Clarke (Upper Canada) (born 1780s- died 1862), merchant and politician in Upper Canada John Fitzgerald Clarke (1827–1887), Ontario, Canada MPP John M. Clarke (1854–1936), lumber merchant, contractor and political figure on Prince Edward Island John Clarke (activist) , Canadian political activist and founder of
208-548: The only surviving child of Henry Fotherly Whitfeld, of Rickmansworth Park, deceased) has his Majesty's licence and authority to take and use the surname and arms of Whitfeld only. In 1820 he was elected organist and master of the choristers at Hereford Cathedral ; and on the death of Dr Haig he was appointed Professor of Music at Cambridge. Three years afterwards he resigned these appointments in consequence of an attack of paralysis. He died at Hereford, on 22 February 1836 aged 65. Whitfeld's compositions were very numerous. Among
224-408: The same grade at Oxford. In 1814 he assumed the surname of Whitfeld, in addition to that of Clarke, in anticipation of an inheritance which failed to materialise. Press cutting - Bury & Norwich Post 1 June 1814 - Tuesdays Gazette: John Clarke, of Emanuel House, Cambridge, Dr. in music, only son and heir of John Clarke, late of Malmesbury, Wilts, Gent, by Amphillis his wife, (who was at length
240-405: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Clarke&oldid=1243443692 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
256-751: Was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly . Clarke was born on Anglesey in Wales on February 17, 1831. He died on December 14, 1906. Clarke was a member of the Assembly in 1882. Previously, he had been Sheriff of Marathon County, Wisconsin ; Chairman of the Marathon County Board; a member of the Wausau City Council and Mayor of Wausau. In 1893, Clarke became Postmaster of Somo, Wisconsin . Additionally, he
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