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year 1773, and became Vicar of the Holy-Trinity 

 Church, in the year 1783. In the years 1784 

 and 1785, he filled the situation of president of 

 the Subscription Library in this town, which, 

 though then comparatively in its infancy, was 

 already in a flourishing state, and had the sup- 

 port of many gentlemen of literary talent. Mr. 

 Clarke did not court notoriety as an author, 

 having only published " A Sermon on the 

 Election of a Mayor at Hull," which was printed 

 at the request of the Corporation of the town, in 

 1785, and "A Sermon on the Injustice of the 

 Slave Trade," printed in 1792. He died on the 

 25th day of July, 1797, at the age of forty-five 

 years, having, a short time previously, taken his 

 degree of Doctor of Divinity. 



RALPH DARLING, Esq., an alderman, and twice 

 mayor, of this town, was born in the parish of 

 Holy-Trinity, on the 17th January, 1728, N. S., 

 and was, for many years, a medical practitioner 

 here. He turned the English translation of the 

 Holy Evangelists into verse; and in 1801, his 

 labours were submitted to the public, under the 

 title of " A Poetical Version of the four Gospels." 

 Mr. Darling died on the 21st November, 1798, 

 at the age of seventy years. 



Few men have better deserved the appellation 

 of "learned" than the late Rev. RICHARD PATRICK, 

 M.A., and vicar, during a period of twenty-one 



