CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL English mineralogist and traveller, was born at Willingdon, Sussex, on June 5, 1769, and educated at Tonbridge and Jesus college, Cam bridge. In 1799-1803 he made an extended tour through the con tinent of Europe 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. He returned home by way of Athens, Constantinople, Rumelia, Austria, Ger many and France. On arriving in England Clarke made important donations to Cambridge university, including a colossal statue of the Eleusinian Ceres. He received the livings of Harlton and Yeldham and near the end of 1808 was appointed to the pro fessorship of mineralogy in Cambridge, then first instituted. The mss. which he had collected in the course of his travels were sold to the Bodleian library. He was also appointed university librar ian in 1817 and was one of the founders of the Cambridge Philo sophical Society in 5819. He died in London on March 9, 1822.
The following is a list of his principal works: Testimony of Authors respecting the Colossal Statue of Ceres in the Public Library, Cam bridge (1801-3) ; The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Mu seum (18o5) ; A Methodical Distribution of the Mineral Kingdom (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 (1809) ; Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (1810-19; 2nd ed., 1811-23) .
See Rev. W. Otter, Life and Remains of E. D. Clarke (London, 1824).