Thomas Clark

Baptized: Feb­ru­a­ry 5, 1775, Can­ter­bu­ry, Kent, Eng­land.
Died: May 30, 1859, at his home in St. George’s Street, Can­ter­bu­ry, Kent, Eng­land.

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. Clark wrote a num­ber of an­thems, in­clud­ing "Awake Up, My Glo­ry", "Daugh­ter of Zi­on" and "Since I Have Placed My Trust." His other works in­clude:

First Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, 1805
Second Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, cir­ca 1810
Congregational Har­mon­ist, 4 vol­umes (1828 to 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)

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