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Author: Clark, Ewan

Biography:

CLARK, Ewan (1734-1811: ancestry.co.uk)

Born at Standing Stone near Wigton, Cumberland, he was one of seven children of Wilfrid Clark (1695-1777) and his wife Jane Christian (1695-1760). He was baptised at Wigton on 13 Sept. 1734. A brother, Wilfrid, earned a BA from Queen’s College, Oxford, and became the vicar of Wigton. Nothing is known about Ewan’s education but he is said to have joined the army. He married Jane Graham (b 1748) on 6 June 1779 (the marriage record incorrectly gives his birth year as 1738) and together they kept a well-regarded school in Standing Stone. It is not known if they had children. Gilpin describes Clark as being “moderately fond of the bottle” and decries his verse as having “no fire, no imagination, no passion.” He died at Standing Stone on 26 May and was buried at Wigton on 28 May 1811. (ancestry.co.uk 8 Dec. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 8 Dec. 2023; Sidney Gilpin, The Popular Poetry of Cumberland and the Lake District [1875])

 

Books written (2):

Whitehaven: [no publisher: printed by Ware], 1779