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Clark, Francis Hartley Hall (1886-1953), Dean of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Dates of existence
22 June 1886 - 17 June 1953
History
Educated at Rugby School and Trinity College where he took Honours in History.
He held the Curacies of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, and Great St Mary's, Cambridge.
During the First World War he held a Mastership at Rossall.
Joined the College in 1919 as a Chaplain and lecturer in History and was elected as a Fellow in 1925.
As a Chaplain he was noted for his quiet and beautiful reading and excellent sermons.
Dean from 1924; intermitted during war (1940 -1946).
Tributes from three friends in the College Magazine, vol. XII, No. 84, pp.25-26