John Erskine Clarke

John Erskine Clarke (1827-1920) wani limami ne na Burtaniya wanda ya fitar da mujallar Ikklisiya ta farko. Ya kafa wasu wallafe-wallafen addini da yawa kuma yana da alhakin kafa makarantun majami'u da asibitoci a Battersea. Ya kuma yi gasa a Henley Royal Regatta .

An haifi Clarke a Cossepor, Bengal, Indiya ɗan fari na William Fairlie Clarke  jami'in Kamfanin Gabashin Indiya. Mahaifin Clarke ya mutu a shekara ta 1835 kuma iyalin suka koma Edinburgh. An shigar da shi a Kwalejin Wadham, Oxford a ranar 26 ga Yuni 1846.  Clarke ya yi tafiya a Oxford kuma a cikin 1849 ya kasance a Kwalejin Wadham takwas wanda ya lashe Kofin Grand Challenge a Henley Royal Regatta .  A cikin 1850 a cikin guda scull ya kasance na biyu a cikin Diamond Challenge Sculls zuwa Thomas Bone . A shekara ta 1851 tare da C L Vaughan a cikin nau'i-nau'i biyu, ya kasance mai tsere a cikin Silver Goblets a Henley zuwa James Aitken da Joseph William Chitty . 

Clarke ya ɗauki Dokoki Masu Tsarki kuma ya zama curate na St Mary, Low Harrogate a 1851. A shekara ta 1852 ya zama curate na St Mary, Lichfield har zuwa 1856, lokacin da ya zama vicar na St Michael's Church, Derby .  Gabashin gable na St Michael ya fadi a lokacin hidima a 1856 kuma an sake gina shi a 1858.  Yayinda yake a St Michael's ya fara mujallar Ikklisiya ta farko a duniya, mai suna Parish Magazine, a watan Janairun shekara ta 1859. Ya kasance mai goyon bayan Derby Co-operative Society wanda ke ba da ɗakin karatu kuma a matsayin wakilin Ƙungiyar Ma'aikata ya taimaka wajen samar da kantin sayar da kayan masarufi. Ya kuma kasance shugaban abin da aka sani da Happy Home Union .  A shekara ta 1863 ya kafa ''Kyautar Yara'', takarda ga yara ƙanana daga baya ake kira Kyautar. A shekara ta 1866 ya koma St Andrew Derby  kuma ya fara aiki tare da mai bugawa William Macintosh don samar da Chatterbox, takarda na mako-mako ga yara tsofaffi.  An fara sayar da bugu na farko a ranar 1 ga Disamba, 1866. Clarke ya zama Prebendary na Lichfield Cathedral a 1869.  A shekara ta 1871 ya fara Church Bells, wata jaridar addini ta mako-mako.

A shekara ta 1872, Clarke ya zama Vicar na Diocese na Rochester a 1877, an nada shi Dean na Rural a 1880, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Proctor na diocesan. .

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