Charles Barnett-Clarke

The Very Rev Charles William Barnett-Clarke (16 July 1830 – 23 February 1916) was a long serving Dean of Cape Town, South Africa.[1][2]

Clarke was baptised 8 October 1830 at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the son of Charles Thomas Hughes Clarke and his wife, Maria Barnett. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1855. After a Curacy at St Andrew, Wells Street he was [4] Perpetual Curate of Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire[5] and then Rector of Cadmore [6] before his South African appointment. He died in Cape Town, aged 85.

Notes
  1. The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook. George Routledge & Sons, Limited. 1910. p. 19. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  2. Cape Province, South Africa, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972
  3. The Standard (London, England), Friday, October 24, 1851; Issue 8488
  4. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence." The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, June 5, 1855; pg. 5; Issue 25405. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
  5. "Ecclesiastical preferments." Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, 6 November 1858; Issue 5506
  6. "Ecclesiastical Preferments." The Times, Thursday, 18 May 1871; pg. 11; Issue 27066
Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by
Henry Alexander Douglas		 Dean of Cape Town
1869–1916		 Succeeded by
Cecil Henry Rolt


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