Language English Nationality British | Spouse Maria Mildred Eaton Name Hyde Clarke | |
Born Henry Harcourt Hyde Clarke14 December 1815Barbican, London ( 1815-12-14 ) Died 1 March 1895(1895-03-01) (aged 79)Mayfair, London Occupation EngineerPhilologistAuthor Subjects EngineeringPhilologyScience | ||
Henry Harcourt Hyde Clarke, known as Hyde Clarke, (14 December 1815 – 1 March 1895) was an English engineer, philologist and author.
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The son of Henry and Susannah Clarke, he was born at Little Bell Alley, Barbican in London. He edited the Railway Register from 1845 to 1847 and founded the London and County Bank. He was a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was expelled from the Anthropological Society of London on 22 August 1868 in the wake of public allegations he had made concerning (chiefly) the mismanagement of accounts of that body. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society on 19 December 1876.
He corresponded with Charles Darwin
Family
He married Maria Mildred Eaton, with one son one daughter:
Maria died at their home, 32 St George's Square, Mayfair, London, in 1892 aged 71. He died at their home on 1 March 1895, aged 79