Clark/[Clarke], Thomas

Education

Student United College 1823-1824 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1824-1825 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. 2; Log. 1825-1826 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics; Pol. Econ.; Math. 3 1826-1827 Lat. Prov.; Physics. (Ternar).

Student St Mary’s College 1827-1831. Part bursary, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831.

Birth/childhood

Born 1807 son of Thomas Clark, tailor, Dundee and Margaret Clark.

Career

([Clarke] for first session only)

Minister at Lethendy 1835, but not inducted. Deprived of licence in 1846. In employ of Messrs Chambers, Edinburgh and Blackie, Glasgow, then on literary staff of Glasgow Daily Bulletin.

Death

Died Glasgow 7.7.1859 aged 52.

Sources

  • UYSM400/4/64,90, 104, 117
  • David Marshall’s Notebook
  • W. Norrie, Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century (1873)
  • Deaths Reg. Blythswood, Glasgow 1859/313