Clare, John, the peasant poet of Northamptonshire, born near Peterborough; wrote “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery,” which attracted attention, and even admiration, and at length with others brought him a small annuity, which he wasted in speculation; fell into despondency, and died in a lunatic asylum (1793‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Clare * Clare, St.