John Willis Clark
John Willis Clark (1833 – 1910), sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian.
Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent his life at the university, serving as Fellow of Trinity Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology, and Registrary of the University.[1] He was also Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
Works
- Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, with Robert Willis, 4 volumes, 1886.
- The Life and Letters of The Reverend Adam Sedgwick (1890) in 2 volumes
- Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods (1894)
- The observances in use at The Augustinian Priory of S. Giles : and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire (1897)
- On the Vatican Library of Sixtus IV (1899])
- Old friends at Cambridge and elsewhere (1900)
- Cambridge; a concise guide to the town & university in [an introduction and] four walks (1902)
- Endowments of the University of Cambridge (1904)
- Cambridge (1908)
- The Care of Books (1909)
Contributions to the DNB
Works about Clark
References
- Clark, John Willis. (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108003063)
- Clark, John Willis. (1902). The Care of Books. Cambridge University Press (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108005081)
- Clark, John Willis. (1901). Specimens of Printing Types and Ornaments. Cambridge University Press (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108001069)
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