Introduction

Biography

A cob­bler and choir train­er, Clark led the sing­ing of the Psalms at the Wes­ley­an Cha­pel, Can­ter­bu­ry, and lat­er at the Uni­ta­ri­an Church in Can­ter­bu­ry.

It has been claimed he ne­ver ac­tu­al­ly joined the Uni­ta­ri­ans, though he sym­pa­thized with them, and he re­signed from the Me­tho­dists.

Works

Clark wrote a num­ber of an­thems, in­clud­ing Awake Up, My Glo­ry, Daugh­ter of Zi­on and Since I Have Placed My Trust.

His oth­er works in­cude:

• First Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, 1805
• Second Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, circa 1810
• Congregational Har­mo­nist, 4 vol­umes (1828–circa 1835)
• The Sac­red Glean­er, 1830
• The Un­ion Tune-Book, 1837 (co-editor)
• Union Har­mo­nist, 1841
• Harmonized the se­cond edi­tion of the Un­ion Tune Book for the Sun­day School Un­ion, 1842
• The Ju­ve­nile Har­mo­nist, 1842
• David’s Harp—A Ser­ies of Orig­in­al Tunes Com­posed Ex­press­ly to the Psal­ter, 1843
• The Se­ra­phim or Sac­red Har­mo­nist, 1843
• British Psal­mo­dy, with Al­ex­an­der Hume (Edin­burgh, Scot­land: 1844)