CMS 1876 - Age 28. Of Whitehaven. Engineer and Architect. 1876, March 30 to E. Eq. Africa Mission as Lay Agent. Commenced Mpwapwa Station, erected the Mission-house, conciliated the good-will of the Ugogo, and made some progress in the language. 1877, March to England in broken health and Jan. 1878, connexion closed. Service 1 year. Married when accepted.

Ujiji - Edward Hutchinson, lay secretary of the Society …….. Ordered one of his lay missionaries, G.J. Clark, "to do what is necessary to make a practical road from Mpapwa through the hills to the East," adding that "this road will be the key to East Africa." The instructions for the road building, however, were imprecise; Clark was to be content with making a very rough road, and he was to undertake the task only after he had carried out his original orders to found a station at Mpapwa. …………. Clark, much hampered by illness at Mpapwa, finally had to leave Africa. ………. Ujiji - ill health forced him to return to Britain in 1877 "a good deal shattered.

He returned to England to live in St Bees.