David Clarkson (minister)

The son of Robert Clarkson, he was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, where he was baptised on 3 March 1622.

His brother, William Clarkson, held the sequestered rectory of Adel, Leeds, and died not long before the Restoration.

He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and by virtue of a warrant from the Earl of Manchester was admitted fellow on 5 May 1645, being then B.A.

[1] Clarkson obtained the perpetual curacy of Mortlake, Surrey, and held it till his ejection by the Uniformity Act 1662.

His Select Works were edited for the Wycliffe Society by Basil Henry Cooper and John Blackburn, 1846.