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'''Edward Daniel Clarke''' ([[5 June]] [[1769]] – [[9 March]] [[1822]]), [[England|English]] [[mineralogist]] and traveller, was born at [[Willingdon and Jevington|Willingdon]], [[Sussex]], and educated first at [[Tonbridge]].

In [[1786 AD|1786]] he obtained the office of chapel clerk at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], but the loss of his father at this time involved him in difficulties. In [[1790 AD|1790]] he took his degree,<sup>[1]</sup> and soon after became private tutor to [[Henry Tufton]], nephew of the [[Duke of Dorset]]. In 1792 he obtained an engagement to travel with [[Thomas Noel Hill, 2nd Baron Berwick|Lord Berwick]] through [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]] and [[Italy]]. After crossing the [[Alps]], and visiting a few of the principal cities of Italy, including [[Rome]], he went to [[Naples]], where he remained nearly two years.

Having returned to England in the summer of 1794, he became tutor in several distinguished families. In 1799 he set out with a Mr 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 was of considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts, etc., which had been collected by the French savants.

[[Greece]] was the country next visited. From [[Athens]] the travellers proceeded by land to Constantinople, and after a short stay in that city directed their course homewards through [[Rumelia]], Austria, Germany and France. Clarke, who had now obtained considerable reputation, took up his residence at [[university of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. He received the degree of LL.D. shortly after his return in 1803, on account of the valuable donations, including a colossal statue of the Eleusinian [[Ceres (Roman mythology)|Ceres]], which he had made to the university.

He was also presented to the college living of Harlton, near Cambridge, in 1805, to which, four years later, his father-in-law added that of Yeldham. Towards the end of 1808 Dr Clarke was appointed to the [[Professor of Mineralogy, Cambridge University|professorship of mineralogy in Cambridge]], then first instituted. Nor was his perseverance as a traveller otherwise unrewarded. The manuscripts which he had collected in the course of his travels were sold to the [[Bodleian library]] for £1000; and by the publication of his travels he realized altogether a clear profit of £6595.

Besides lecturing on [[mineralogy]] and discharging his clerical duties, Dr Clarke eagerly prosecuted the study of [[chemistry]], and made several discoveries, principally by means of the gas [[Blowpipe (tool)|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 the 9th of March 1822.

== Works ==

The following is a list of his principal 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).

== See also ==
*[[Timeline of hydrogen technologies]]
* ''Life and Remains'', by [[William Otter|Rev. William Otter]] (1824).

== References ==
* 1. Clarke, Edward Daniel in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

==External links==
* Rev. Otter (1827), Life and Remains of Edward Daniel Clarke (2nd ed.), New York: Collins and Hannay [http://books.google.com/books?id=dLwQAAAAIAAJ]

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