Hyde Clarke

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Hyde Clarke (14 December 1815 – 1 March 1895) was an English engineer, philologist and author. 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.

[edit] Principal works

  • Physical economy a preliminary inqury into the physical laws governing the periods of famines and panics. 1847
  • Life of Richard Trevithick, C.E.; Life of George Stephenson, C.E. 1848
  • Contributions to railway statistics in 1846, 1847, & 1848 1849
  • A grammar of the English tongue, spoken and written; for self-teaching and for schools. 1859
  • Memoir of the comparative grammar of Egyptian, Coptic & Ude 1873
  • Researches in prehistoric and protohistoric comparative philology, mythology, and archæology, in connection with the origin of culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian families. 1875
  • The Khita and Khita-Peruvian epoch: Khita, Hamath, Hittite, Canaanite, Etruscan, Peruvian, Mexican, etc. 1877
  • Himalayan Origin and Connection of the Magyar and Ugrian. 1877
  • A short handbook of the comparative philology of the English, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Flemish or Dutch, Low or Platt Dutch, High Dutch or German, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese toungues. 1879
  • The early history of the Mediterranean populations, &c., in their migrations and settlements : illustrated from Autonomous Coins, Gems, Inscriptions, &C. 1882

[edit] References

  • Clarke,Hyde. The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archæology, Fiction, Etc. New York: Century Co, 1904.
  • worldcat.org Accessed April 2, 2007

[edit] External links

  • For a note about Hyde Clarke "Sunspots and Expectations" of the Economics of W.S. Jevons by Sandra Peart Google books.com
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