CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL, known as a traveler and author, was b. at Willingdon, in Sussex, in 1769. He studied at Cambridge. and from 1790 to 1799 was employed as tutor and traveling-companion in several noblemen's families, and made the tour of Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. In 1799, lie set out on an extensive tour with Mr. Cripps, a young man of fortune; they traversed Denmark, Nor way, Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Russia, the country of the Don-Cossacks, Tartary, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Greece, and did not return to England till 1802. In conse quence of his donations to the university of Cambridge, C. received the degree of LL.D. In 1807, he began a course of lectures on mineralogy, and the university estab lished a professorship of that science in his favor. He presented to the library of Cam bridge a number of valuable marbles collected during his travels; among others, the colossal statue of the Eleusinian Ceres, on which he wrote a treatise in 1800. England
is also indebted to him for the possession of the famous sarcophagus with the inscription in three languages. On this be wrote a treatise: The limb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus brought from Alexandria,'mil now in the British .M'u.seum (Lond. 1805). His " Travels," of which the first volume was published in 1810, and the fifth in 1819, were received with extraordinary favor. An additional volume, containing his Travels through .Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Norway, Finland, and Rus six, was published after his death (Load. 1823). A complete edition of his travels appeared in 11 vels. (Loud. 1819-24). The university of Cambridge purchased his Greek and oriental manuscripts, among which is the famous Codex of Plato, which C. discovered in the island of Patmos. C. died Mar. 9, 1822.