John Clutton

Little reliable biographical information is easy to confirm about this author, beyond the surviving printed record of his work. Project Gutenberg identifies him as Rev. John Clutton, A.M., Prebendary of Hereford, and preserves Sabbath-Breaking on the Canal: A Poem, transcribed from an 1820? edition.

That poem is a strongly religious piece focused on Sabbath observance and the spiritual dangers of commercial life, especially canal labor carried on Sunday. It reflects the tone of early 19th-century Anglican moral writing, combining social concern with direct religious warning.

Because firm details about his life were not clearly confirmed in the sources reviewed here, it is safest to remember him as a clergyman-author known through this surviving devotional poem rather than through a well-documented personal biography.