Clare, Mary (1744/5–1806), née Palmer, previous married name Bishop

Mary Palmer was born in 1744 or 1745, the daughter of Joseph Palmer of Old Malling, near Lewes, and his wife Mary. On 1 January 1763 she married Samuel Bishop at St Augustine’s, Watling Street, in London. The couple had one child, named Mary.

Samuel Bishop died on 17 November 1795, and on 13 June 1798 Mary married her late husband's friend Thomas Clare, a clergyman, at St Margaret's, Westminster.

She died in early January 1806, aged 61, in the parish of St Luke’s, Chelsea, of inflammation of the lungs, and was buried in St Bride’s church, on the north side of the communion table, on the 11th.

Clare issued Bishop’s Poetical Works in two volumes in 1796.
Second edition, 1800.
A third edition appeared under the title Poems on Various Subjects by the late Rev. Samuel Bishop, A.M., and, under the (2nd ed., 1800), and also his Sermons chiefly upon Practical Subjects, in 1798.