Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, hymn writer, and Anglican clergyman. Pseudonym: C. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Curate in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Norfolk, and in 1870 appointed vicar of West Dereham in Norfolk. Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Inscription for Spring (published on 12 January 1861), which lists the author as J. H. Clark, Whitting[ton] Cot[tage], Chesterfield, Derbyshire (NLS 341/310). Biographical information: Hymnary; The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/j/john-haldenby-clark (21 November 2022). (AC)