OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



The Rev. William Bkanwhite Clarke was born 2nd June, 1798, at 

 East Bergholt, county of Suffolk, and educated partly in his father's 

 house, under the Rev. R. G. Suckling Browne, B.D., a distinguished 

 Hebrew scholar, and Fellow of Dulwich College, and partly at Dedhani 

 Grammar School ; he entered into residence at Jesus College, Cam- 

 bridge, in October, 1817. He took his degree in January, 1821, and 

 in 1824 became M.A. 



In May, 1821, he received deacon's orders from Dr. Bathurst, 

 Bishop of Norwich, and priest's orders in May, 1823. 



From May, 1821, to November, 1824, he was trained as curate at 

 Ramsholt, at Hedging and Whatfield, at Chellesworth and Brantham, 

 and then in his native parish. He took advantage of his rector's per- 

 mission to travel every year, and thus laid the foundation of practical 

 application of the geological and mineralogical lessons he had received 

 at the University, under Professor Sedgwick and Dr. E. Clarke, the 

 great traveller. He made a personal examination of the most cele- 

 brated formations of Europe. He travelled extensively in England 

 and Wales and on the Continent from 1820 to 1839, not omitting ;i 

 single year. He thus visited the Lake District, the Isle of Man, 

 Staffordshire, Derbyshire, North Wales, the chalk and oolite of York- 

 shire and Lincolnshire, the chalk of Sussex and Normandy, the central 

 and southern parts of France, the Alps and North of Italy, the Nether- 

 lands, Rhenish provinces, Prussia, Belgium, the Ardennes, the 

 tertiary districts of Nassau, the volcanic districts of the Rhine and 

 Moselle. In 1829 he completed his survey of the counties of Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, and Essex. In 1830 he visited the chalk districts and older 

 formations of the frontiers of France and Belgium. Then followed 

 Dorsetshire, West of England, Isle of Wight, Sussex, South- 

 west of England, the coal beds of the Boulonnais, the North of 

 France, the Channel Islands and Isle of Portland, the new red sandstone 

 of Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire, the Silurian old red sand- 

 stone and coal districts of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, 

 and South Wales. 



In 1830 and 1831 he was present during many of the stirring scenes 

 of the Belgian War of Independence and the last siege of Antwerp ; 

 at which time also he made the acquaintance of the lady who soon 

 after became his wife, a daughter of Dr. Stather, a gentleman of 



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