Background
Clarke was partly raised in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on the French-Spanish border, where his father was Anglican chaplain.
historian university professor
Clarke was partly raised in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on the French-Spanish border, where his father was Anglican chaplain.
He studied at the University of Oxford, and in 1890 was appointed lecturer on Spanish at the Taylor Institution.
His best-known work is Modern Spain, 1815-1898, published posthumously in 1906. He resigned as a lecturer for reasons of health in 1894, but remained Fereday Fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford, and continued to write and research. In 1898 he was invited to give the annual Taylorian Lecture, choosing as his subject the picaresque novel.
He died in Torquay in 1904.