Samuel Clarke was an

Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

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during the 17th century. Clarke was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. Clarke was ordained deacon on 19 April 1619 and priest on 11 April 1620. He was

Dean of Clonmacnoise The Dean of Clonmacnoise is based at Trim Cathedral, The Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Trim in the united Diocese of Meath and Kildare within the Church of Ireland. The incumbent is Paul Bogle. List of deans of Clonmacnoise *1561 William Flyn ...

from 1633 until 1634."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p145: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878

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