James Stanier Clarke
James Stanier Clarke (1766–1834)
Early life
The eldest son of
Having taken holy orders, Clarke was in 1790 appointed to the rectory of
Courtier
Clarke in February 1795 entered the
In 1806, Clarke took the degree of
From 1815 for a short period Clarke was in contact with Jane Austen about her novel-writing: they were introduced by Austen's friend the surgeon Charles Thomas Haden.[10] Having shown Austen round the library at Carlton House in November, and arranged that George should have Emma dedicated to him, Clarke also made suggestions in correspondence for Austen's future writing. These she mocked in the satirical manuscript Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters, not published in her lifetime.[11]
Clarke was installed
Clarke died on 4 October 1834.[4]
Works
In 1798, Clarke published a volume of Sermons preached in the Western Squadron during its services off Brest, on board HM ship Impetueux (1798; 2nd edit. 1801). With
In 1809, with McArthur, Clarke published his major work, the Life of Lord Nelson (2 vols.; 2nd edit. 1840). It mixed official and private letters, and made questionable use of its sources.[4] Robert Southey criticised it destructively in the Quarterly Review, a culmination of his literary feud with Clarke that led also to Southey writing his own Nelson biography.[14]
In 1816, Clarke published a Life of King James II, from the Stuart MSS. in Carlton House (2 vols.). The work contains portions of the king's autobiography, the original of which is now lost;[4] in the Dictionary of National Biography it was considered to be the work of Lewis Innes, where Clarke attributed it to his brother Thomas Innes.[15] A modern scholarly view is that the work was written in two parts by different Jacobite courtiers, the first part (to 1677) being by John Caryll, the second by William Dicconson. David Nairne assisted Caryll.[16][17]
Clarke also edited William Falconer's The Shipwreck, with life of the author and notes (1804), which ran to several editions, and Lord Clarendon's Essays (1815, 2 vols.).[4]
Notes
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5504. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 9781786074416
- ^ Mark Antony Lower, The Worthies of Sussex (1865), p. 63: "In fact, Uckfield school enjoyed considerable celebrity. During the mastership of the Robert Gerison, James Stanier Clarke, and his brother Edward Daniel Clarke, the well-known traveller, received their rudimentary education there..."
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Clarke, James Stanier (CLRK784JS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- JSTOR 4247580.
- JSTOR 2921248.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ISBN 978-0-7546-8184-7. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- JSTOR 450671.
- ISBN 978-0-313-30017-2.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- JSTOR 4054295.
- ISBN 978-0-300-11681-6. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- JSTOR 575537.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46463. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Clarke, James Stanier". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.