Clark, John Haldenby (M)

Surname: Clark
Forename(s): John Haldenby
b. 28 January 1839. d. 14 April 1888. Nationality: English.
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)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 5
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Inscription for a Spring 1861-01-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6573
Sonnet 1861-03-09 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6581
To My Wife, Ill 1861-08-24 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6605
An April Morning 1862-04-05 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6641
My Choice 1866-05-26 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7333