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LUKE CLENNELL. 



(Born 1781. Died 1840.) 



T UKE CLENNELL was born at Ulgham, 

 -*— ' near Morpeth in Northumberland, on 8th 

 April, 1 78 1. His father, a farmer, apprenticed 

 the boy to an uncle who was a grocer ; but the 

 shop was so little to his taste that he was 

 removed, and allowed for a lime to follow his 

 own bent, which declared itself at an early period. 

 His love of drawing soon became marked, and 

 he employed himself in making pictures of his 

 rural surroundings. Unfortunately or perhaps for- 

 tunately, as the event proved, the innate mischief 

 of boyhood found vent in the artistic direction of 

 caricature, and, having on one occasion outstepped 

 the limits of a neighbour's toleration by this mis- 

 directed exercise of talent, it was considered 

 desirable to put an end to the comparative idle 

 life he was leading, 



Luke Clennell was lucky enough to possess an 

 uncle, Mr. Thomas Clennell, of Morpeth, who 

 recognised the genuineness of his gift for drawing, 

 and through this gentleman's instrumentality he 



