East Sussex Church Monuments - 1530 to 1830 - Archive of Photographs
by Professor Nigel Llewellyn

(47) BUXTED, St. Margaret the Queen


47K Painting commemorating William CLARKE, d. 1771

-  South aisle, South wall, near West end.

-  62(W) x 130(H)~Good.

-  Painted lines fill surface of a painted, framed wooden panel.

-  William Clarke, A.M., fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; chaplain to bishop Simon Otley and Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle; rector of Buxted; born 1696, Shropshire, and died Chichester, 21 Oct 1771, aet 75; also reports a marble tomb at Chichester for William Clarke, d. unknown, his wife Anne, daughter of William Wotton and Anne Hammond; their issue, 2, unnamed.