Reverend Dr Andrew Clark (7 June 1856 – 24 March 1922) was a Church of England minister, a prodigious editor of literary and historical texts, and is now well known for his lengthy diary of the First World War.
He was Chaplain of Lincoln and vicar of two Oxford churches, All Saints and St Michael at the North Gate.
It was, no doubt, his deep experience of the writings of Aubrey and Wood that led him to appreciate the importance of popular belief, gossip and hearsay, and prompted his greatest work in chronicling the sensation of living through the Great War in Essex.
Extracts from the diaries relating to those commemorated on the Great Leighs War Memorial are available via the external link below.
Edited volumes of Wood's Antiquities of the City of Oxford (1889–99) Clark's contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography included: