Edward Clodd

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Edward Clodd (1840-07-01 – 1930) was an English banker, writer and anthropologist.

Born to a Baptist family, his parents wished him to become a minister, but he declined and instead went into banking. He worked for the London Joint Stock Bank from 1872 to 1915.

Clodd was an early follower of the work of Charles Darwin, and though he had no training as a writer, he worked to popularise evolution through books like The Childhood of the World and The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution. He was chairman of the Rationalist Press Association from 1906 to 1913.

He was also a keen folklorist, joining the Folklore Society from 1878, and later becoming its president.

Clodd was a close friend of the Canadian writer Grant Allen.

[edit] Works

The following list is incomplete.

  • 1872: The Childhood of the World
  • 1888: The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution
  • 1898: Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-tale
  • 1900: Grant Allen: A Memoir
  • 1916: Memories
  • 1917: The Question: If a Man Die, Shall he Live Again?
  • 1895: A Primer of Evolution (Longmans, Green, New York)
  • 1895: The Story of “Primitive” Man (D. Appleton, New York)


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