Sidney Clarke
Royal Navy chaplain
About Sidney Clarke
Lived 1871 – 1945 (aged 73–74). Sidney Clarke was a chaplain.
The Venerable Sidney Lampard Clarke MA, BSc was an eminent Anglican Chaplain.
He was born on 15 January 1871 in Derby, Derbyshire, England and educated at the Universities of St Andrews and London. He was ordained Deacon in 1899 and Priest a year later. After a curacy at St. Mary's, Horncastle he was a naval chaplain and instructor from 1901 until 1918 when he joined the fledgling RAF Chaplaincy Service. He was at the Halton Camp from 1919 to 1930 when he became Archdeacon (Chaplain-in-Chief) of the service. Upon military retirement he was Vicar of Cranwell from 1934 to 1938.
An Honorary Chaplain to the King he died on 13 November 1945.
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Royal Navy chaplain
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Sidney Clarke was born in 1871.
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Sidney Clarke died in 1945.
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