Edward Daniel Clarke
Edward Daniel Clarke | |
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Born | 5 June 1769 |
Died | 9 March 1822 London, England, United Kingdom | (aged 52)
Nationality | English |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Natural history, mineralogy |
Edward Daniel Clarke (5 June 1769 – 9 March 1822) was an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller.
Life
Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Uckfield School[1] and then at Tonbridge.[2]
In 1786 he obtained the office of chapel clerk at
Having returned to England in the summer of 1794, he became a tutor to several distinguished families. In 1799 he set out with John Marten Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke helped to secure for England a number of statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts and other antiquities which had been collected by French savants in the city.[2]
He was also presented to the college living of
Besides lecturing on mineralogy and discharging his clerical duties, made several discoveries in chemistry, principally by means of the gas blow-pipe, which he had brought to a high degree of perfection. He was also appointed university librarian in 1817, and was one of the founders of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1819. He died in London on 9 March 1822.[2]
Greek artefacts
In 1801, Clarke and his assistant
Selected works
- Testimony of Authors respecting the Colossal Statue of Ceres in the Public Library, Cambridge (8vo, 1801–1803)
- The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum (4to, 1805)
- A Methodical Distribution of the Mineral Kingdom (fol., Lewes, 1807)
- A Description of the Greek Marbles brought from the Shores of the Euxine, Archipelago and Mediterranean, and deposited in the University Library, Cambridge (8vo, 1809)
- Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (4to, 1810–1819; 2nd ed., 1811–1823; 4th ed., 1817–1824)
- The gas blow-pipe, or art of fusion, by burning the gaseous constituents of water (1819)
- Travels in Various Countries of Scandinavia Including Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Finland (Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. Part The Third, SCANDINAVIA, Section The Second) MDCCCXXIII (1823) Travels in Various Countries of Scandinavia
Family
In 1806, Clarke married Angelica, fifth daughter of Sir William Beaumaris Rush.[13] She was the younger sister of Charlotte Rush, whom John Marten Cripps had married on 1 January 1806. [14]
See also
References
- ^ "Anthony Saunders, D.D." in Mark Antony Lower, The Worthies of Sussex (1865), p. 63: "In fact, Uckfield school enjoyed considerable celebrity. During the mastership of the Rev. Robert Gerison, Dr. James Stanier Clarke, and his brother Edward Daniel Clarke, the well-known traveller, received their rudimentary education there..."
- ^ a b c d e f Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Clarke, Edward Daniel (CLRK785ED)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ JSTOR 24144793– via JSTOR.
- ^ Edward-Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (London: Cadell and Davies, 1814), third edition, second part, second section, pp. 345–6, 349, 361–362.
- ISBN 978-0-19-516091-8.
Clarke and Cripps greatly admired the statue, which weighed over 2 tons (1.8 tonnes) and decided to take it to England. They were lucky to obtain an edict from the governor of Athens with the help of the gifted Italian artist Giovanni Lusieri, who was at the time working for Lord Elgin.
- ^ a b c d Wroth, Warwick William (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 422.
His chief prize was obtained at Eleusis, whence he succeeded in carrying off the colossal Greek statue (of the fourth or third ...) supposed by Clarke to be ' Ceres ' (Demeter) herself, but now generally called a ' Kistophoros '... statue and with Clarke's other Greek marbles, was wrecked near Beachy Head, not far from the home of Mr. Cripps, whose ...
- ISBN 978-1-107-06704-2.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-107-67703-6.
Further, in open defiance of an iconoclastic Church, they retained an old statue of Demeter, and merely prefixing the title 'saint ' to the ... Then, in 1801, two Englishmen, named Clarke and Cripps, armed by the Turkish authorities with a license to plunder, perpetrated an act ... and in spite of a riot among the peasants of Eleusis removed by force the venerable marble; and that which was the visible form of ...
- ISBN 978-0-14-011511-6.
uncanonical 'St. Demetra', was Eleusis, the former home of her most sacred rites in the Eleusinian mysteries. ... for prosperous harvests until two Englishmen called Clark and Cripps, armed with a document from the local pasha, carried her off from the heart of the outraged and rioting peasantry, in 1801. ...
- ^ "Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822)". The Fitzwilliam Museum. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014.
- ^ Adolf Theodor F. Michaelis (1882). Ancient marbles in Great Britain, tr. by C.A.M. Fennell. p. 244.
Clarke who in company with J. M. Cripps (also of Jesus College, Cambridge), was lucky enough (AD 1801) to get possession of this colossus in spite of the objections of the people of Eleusis, and to ship it with great trouble.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5494. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- WikiSource
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Clarke, Edward Daniel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 444. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Wroth, Warwick William (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 421–424.
- Otter, William (1827), Life and Remains of Edward Daniel Clarke (2nd ed.), New York: Collins and Hannay
- Excerpt from Clarke's Travels giving his account of the removal of the Parthenon sculptures