the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

In the year 1757 Mr. Clark quitted the academy on being invited to become one of the ministers of the congregation assembling in the Old Meeting-house at Birmingham, as joint-pastor with the Rev. W. Howell. A connexion at this time subsisted between this congregation and that at Oldbury, about five miles from Birmingham, the two ministers officiating alternately at each place. Here he continued for twelve years the highly popular and useful minister of an attached congregation. In 1761, the reputation which he had acquired during his connexion with the academies of Northampton and Daventry pointed him out to the trustees of the Warrington academy, on the decease of Dr. Taylor, as the fittest person to succeed him as theological tutor in that institution. He, however, declined the invitation, notwithstanding the earnest persuasions of his friend Dr. Aikin. However competent Mr. Clark might have been, his refusal could hardly be regretted by the friends of the institution, when it led to the appointment of Dr. Aikin himself, and the consequent nomination of Dr. Priestley to fill the station which he had quitted.

On December 3, 1769, as he was setting out for Oldbury, Mr. Clark was thrown from his horse in one of the streets of Birmingham, and was taken up insensible. After languishing for three days, he died in consequence of the injury he had received. A funeral sermon was preached on the occasion of his death, by his former colleague, Dr. Ashworth, which contains a high, but