Mr. Clark was descended from a family which in all its generations had been honourably connected with the history of religious liberty and Protestant dissent. His remote ancestor, Mr. Samuel Clark, of Bennet-Fink, in the City of London, was ejected from his living on the memorable day of St. Bartholomew, 1662, and was followed in the same honourable testimony by two sons, Samuel, Rector of Grendon, in Buckinghamshire, and John, Rector of Codgrave, in Nottinghamshire. The former of these was the author of the well-known Annotations on the Bible. His grandson, Dr. Samuel Clark, was minister at St. Albans, and a man of great worth, eminence, and piety. He is remembered as having been the early patron, adviser, and friend of Doddridge; to whom, in the sermon preached on occasion of his death, he thus records his obligations:—‘I may properly call him my friend and father, if all the offices of paternal tenderness and care can merit that title. To him I may truly say that, under God, I owe even myself, and all my opportunities of public usefulness in the church; to him who was not only the instructor of my childhood and youth in the principles of religion, but my guardian when a helpless orphan, as well as the generous, tender, and faithful friend of all my advancing years.’ Dr. Clark published three excellent sermons ‘On the Nature and Causes of Irresolution in Religion;’ and also a little volume entitled ‘A Collection of Scripture Promises,’ arranged under their proper heads; a work which still retains its place, and causes its author's name to be remembered with grateful