Thomas Clark of Canterbury (Composer)
Born: 1775, England
Died: 30th May 1859, Canterbury, England
Nationality: English
Thomas Clark was a Canterbury shoemaker (cordwainer) and a prolific composer of West Gallery music, especially for the Nonconformist churches of the South East of England. Sally Drage, writing in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, notes that he was 'particularly influential as the composer of early Sunday School collections'.
Clark was born in St Peter's parish in Canterbury and baptized on 5 February 1775. He was apprenticed as a shoemaker to his father, William Clark, and became a Freeman of the City of Canterbury in 1796 on completion of his apprenticeship as he was the son of a Freeman.
He married Anne Ledger in St George's Church, Canterbury, in November 1806. He took over the family business on his father's death in 1823.
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