FREDERICK SCOTSON CLARK

16th November 1840 --- 5th July 1883

Frederick Scotson Clark had exhibited a talent for music at a early age and received some musical education from his mother, who had been
at one time  a student of Frederic Chopin.  He went on to received  tuition in harmony,  for a short time in Paris.  On his return  to England in
1854 he became  a organist at  the Regent Square Presbyterian Church.  Clark was proficient in playing the Piano,  violin and harmonium. By
1858 he was teaching at the Royal Academy of music. Clark founded the London Organ School and College of Music in 1865, later he went to
Exeter College, Oxford, it was here he became a organ scholar, graduating as Bachelor of Music in 1867.  Shortly after he was appointed the
headmaster of St. Michael's Grammar School, Brighton.

Clark was ordained deacon in 1868 and became a priest a year later,  shortly after that he married a Catherine Eliza Brown in 1869. Clark in
the same year traveled to Germany,   to continued his musical studies under Reinecke and Richter  and officiated at an English chapel there
but his marriage to Catherine turned out to be a turbulent affair and lead to a very unhappy marriage. He return to England in around 1872
his relationship with his wife broken down completely and ended up in a messy court case in late 1873 and rumble on to 1874.

One of his last piano performace's was in March 1882 in Guernsey, his playing was reported not to be up his normal standard, which was due
to a illness at this time, it seems he did not recover from and he died the next year 1883 in London.

Clark had composed over 100 piano works, as well as a large number of organ pieces, some of his marches achieved quite a bit of success and
were often available in both organ and piano solo versions.

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