Clark, John (5)

Clark, John (4), a Scotch clergyman, was tutor in the family of the lord chief baron Dundas; was licensed to preach in 1807; presented to the living at Blackford in 1815, and ordained. He died Dec. 31, 1861, aged eighty-one years. He was a man of great penetration and shrewdness of whom clever strokes of humor are related. He published An Account of the Parish. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 752.