Clark, Frederick Scotson |
| ORGANIST, COMPOSER, MUSIC MASTER (ENGLAND) |
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BORN 16 Nov 1840, London: Southwark - DIED 5 Jul 1883, London: 3 Princes Street GRAVE LOCATION London: Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Green (098/RS (28840), three-step plinth, cross is missing) |
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Frederick Scotson Clark was the son of the Irish merchant Michel Clark (1810-1877) and his wife Adelaide Cusack Kearney (1816-1899) who had been a pupil of Frederic Chopin and of Lucy Anderson. He received lesson from his mother and from Eugène Sergent in Paris. By the time he was fourteen years old he became organist of the Regent Square Presbyterian Church in London. At the Royal College of Music he studied under William Sterndale Bennett and John Goss. In 1865 he founded the London Organ School and College of Music. In the same year he was appointed organist at Exeter College in Oxford, where he gradated as Bachelor of Music in 1867 and worked as an organ scholar. In 1868 he was ordained deacon. In the same year he became curate at St. Michael's Grammar School, Brighton. He married Catherine Eliza Brown. They had six children, but the marriage was not happy. They moved to Leipzig where he studied under Carl Reinecke. One year later, he travelled to Stuttgart for further studies without her. In 1873 he returned to the London Organ School and College of Music. In 1878 he represented the English organists at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and he won a gold medal. He died in 1883 in London. His daughter Kathleen Scotson Clark (1870-1959) was headmistress of Allerton High School in Leeds. His son George Frederick Scotson-Clark (1872-1927) was an artist. Related persons • was pupil of Reinecke, Carl |
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 The grave of Frederick Scotson Clark at Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London. Picture by Androom (18 Apr 2024) |
Sources • Vivian-Neal, Henry & Alexander Bisset, Their Exits: Encore, The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, London, 2020 • Frederick Scotson Clark - Wikipedia (EN) |
