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Rev. H.G.J. Clements [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 46, (1914), p. 41.

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Maxwell Adams (Ed.).

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1914 Tavistock meeting. A Wikipedia entry for Colonel John Clements of County Cavan in Ireland indicates that his daughter Selina, born 23 January 1814 at Killymoon, County Tyrone, died on 31 July 1892 at Sidmouth Vicarage. She has a memorial in the parish church there.  She was married on 31 October 1855 to the Rev. Henry George John Clements, Vicar of Sidmouth, who is also buried in Sidmouth. He was the son of Lt-Colonel John Marcus Clements of Glenboy, County Leitrim, Ireland. (Extracted from Wikipedia.) The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Mr. Clements was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, and took his B.A. degree in 1852 and M.A. in 1856. He was ordained in 1854 and took Priest's Orders in 1856. In 1856 he was appointed curate of Sidmouth, holding that office till 1860, when he was appointed perpetual curate of Ashfield, co. Cavan. On the resignation of the Rev. F. Moysey, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Sidmouth, in 1865, he accepted the living, which he held till his death on 12 September, 1913. He was twice married but had no family.
Mr. Clements was an eloquent and impressive preacher and lecturer, and was possessed of considerable literary ability. His chief published work was a Life of Lord Macaulay. His contributions to the Transactions of the Association, which he joined in 1871, are Local Vestiges of Sir Walter Raleigh (1873), and A Local Antiquary, being some Reminiscences of the late Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1903).