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| Born | (1821-03-18)18 March 1821 Darlington, England |
| Died | 6 November 1878(1878-11-06) (aged 57) York, England |
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William George Clark (18 March 1821 – 6 November 1878) was an English writer andclassical scholar.[1] He was best known for founding theJournal of Philology andThe Cambridge Shakespeare alongside writerWilliam Aldis Wright.
He was born at Barford Hall,Darlington. He was educated atSedbergh School,Shrewsbury School, andTrinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated inclassics and won aBrowne medal and was subsequently elected Fellow.[2] In 1857 he was appointedPublic Orator. He travelled much during the long vacations, visiting Spain, Greece, Italy and Poland.
In 1853 Clark had taken orders, but left the Church after the passing of theClerical Disabilities Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 91),[3] of which he was one of the promoters. He also resigned the public oratorship in the same year, and in consequence of illness left Cambridge in 1873. He died atYork on 6 November 1878.
He bequeathed a sum of money to his old college for the foundation of a lectureship in English literature.
Clark established theCambridge Journal of Philology, and cooperated withBenjamin Hall Kennedy andJames Riddell in the production of theSabrinae Corolla. He published little as a classical scholar. A contemplated edition of the works ofAristophanes was never published. He visitedItaly in 1868 to examine the Ravenna manuscript of Aristophanes[4] and other manuscripts, and on his return began the notes to theAcharnians, but they were left incomplete.[5]
The work by which he is best known is theCambridge Shakespeare (1863–6), containing a collation of early editions and selected emendations, edited by him at first with John Glover and later withWilliam Aldis Wright.Gazpacho (1853) gives an account of his tour in Spain; hisPeloponnesus (1858) was a contribution to the knowledge of Greece. His visits to Italy at the time ofGaribaldi's insurrection, and toPoland during the insurrection of 1863, are described inVacation Tourists, ed.Francis Galton, i and iii.[5]
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro inJournal of Philology (viii. 1879) described Clark as "the most accomplished and versatile man he ever met".[5]
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