316 Biography 
BIOGRAPHY.—EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE, LL.D. 
There are few names better or more extensively known than 
Edward Daniel Clarke, who by his travels has rendered himself 
celebrated not only in Europe but in every quarter of the civi- 
lized world. Dr. Clarke was of a literary family; his maternal 
grandfather was the very eminent Dr. William Wotton, well 
known in the literary world by his proficiency when an infant in 
a great variety of languages; and his grandfather and grandmo- 
ther were happily designated by the poet Hayley, in an affec- 
tionate epitaph, as 
< Auld William Clarke, and Anne his wife.” 
Mr. Clarke, among other works, published “ The Connexion 
-of the Roman, Saxon, and English Coins.” His son, the father 
of the subject of the present memoir, the Rev. Edward Clarke, 
was like his father a man of genius and a scholar. 
Edward Daniel Clarke was born in the year 1769, and was 
educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; in 1790 he took the de- 
gree of B.A.; in 1794 M.A., and became senior fellow of that 
College. Soon after taking his degree, Dr. Clarke accompanied 
the present Lord Berwick abroad, and remained for some time 
in Italy. ‘The classic scenes he there met with, and his own in- 
quisitive genius;'stimulated him to enter into a wider field of re-” 
search ; and shortly after his return to England, he embarked 
on those travels which have rendered his name so distinguished. 
To enter into any description of them is needless—they are be- 
fore the public. They have been, and will continue to be, the 
delight and solace of those who have been unable to visit other 
countries ; and they have excited the dormant spirit of curiosity 
in many a resident of the University, who has followed eagerly 
the steps of Dr. Clarke, and has invariably borne testimony to 
the accuracy and fidelity of his narrative. Dr. Clarke has some- 
where mentioned all the excellencies which must unite to forma 
perfect traveller—he must have the pencil of Norden, the pen 
of Volney, the learning of Pococke, the perseverance of Bruce, 
the enthusiasm of Savary. Of all these Dr. Clarke united in his 
own person by far the greater share. No difficulties in his pro-° 
gress were ever allowed to be insuperable; and upon all occa- 
sions he imparted to others a portion of his own enthusiasm. It 
was upon the return from this extensive tour, during which he 
had visited nearly the whole of Europe, and parts of Asia and 
Africa, that Dr. Clarke presented to thie University those memo- 
rials of his travels, which now decorate the , vestibule of the li- 
brary; and as some return for the splendour which his name had 
reflected upon the University, he was complimented in full Senate 
with the degree of LL.D. Among the contributions to the Uni- 
versity, 
