Charles Barnett-Clarke


The Very Rev Charles William Barnett-Clarke was a long serving Dean of Cape Town, South Africa.
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 and ordained in 1855. After a Curacy at St Andrew, Wells Street he was Perpetual Curate of Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire and then Rector of Cadmore before his South African appointment. He died in Cape Town, aged 85.