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CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE (1821—1878)

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CLARK, See also:WILLIAM See also:GEORGE (1821—1878) , See also:English classical and Shakespearian See also:scholar, was See also:born at Barford See also:Hall, See also:Darlington, in See also:March 1821. He was educated at See also:Sedbergh and See also:Shrewsbury See also:schools and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he was elected See also:fellow after a brilliant university career. In 1857 he was appointed public orator. He travelled much during the See also:long vacations, visiting See also:Spain, See also:Greece, See also:Italy and See also:Poland. His See also:Peloponnesus (1858) was an important contribution to the knowledge of the See also:country at that See also:time. In 1853 Clark had taken orders, but See also:left the See also:Church in 187o after the passing of the Clerical Disabilities See also:Act, of which he was one of the promoters. He also resigned the public oratorship in the same See also:year, and in consequence of illness left Cambridge in 1873. He died at See also:York on the 6th of See also:November 1878. He bequeathed a sum of See also:money to his old college for the See also:foundation of a lectureship in English literature. Although Clark was before all a classical scholar, he published little in that See also:branch of learning. A contemplated edition of the See also:works of See also:Aristophanes, a task for which he was singularly fitted, was never published. He visited Italy in 1868 for the See also:express purpose of examining the See also:Ravenna and other See also:MSS., and on his return began the notes to the Acharnians, but they were left in too incomplete a See also:state to admit of publication in See also:book See also:form even after his See also:death (see See also:Journal of See also:Philology, viii., 1879).

He established the Cambridge Journal of Philology, and co-operated with B. H. See also:

Kennedy and See also:James Riddell in the See also:production of the well-known Sabrinae Corolla. The See also:work by which he is best known is the Cambridge See also:Shakespeare (1863—1866), containing a See also:collation of See also:early See also:editions and selected emendations, edited by him at first with See also:John See also:Glover and afterwards with W. Aldis See also:Wright. Gazpacho (1853) gives an See also:account of his tour in Spain; his visits to Italy at the time of See also:Garibaldi's insurrection, and to Poland during the insurrection of 1863, are described in Vacation Tourists, ed. F. See also:Galton, i. and iii. H. A. J. See also:Munro in Journal of Philology (viii.

1879) describes Clark as " the most accomplished and versatile See also:

man he ever met "; see also notices by W. Aldis Wright in See also:Academy (Nov. 23, 1878) ; R. See also:Burn in See also:Athenaeum (Nov. 16, 1878) ; The Times (Nov. 8, 1878) ; Notes and Queries, 5th See also:series, x. (1878), p. 400.

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