Career
Born to a family of a senior portman and bailiff of Ipswich, William Barnard Clarke obtained a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but his main interest was architecture. A gifted sketch artist, he published a collection of maps of European cities. In 1832 he supervised the restoration of The Eleanor Cross in Waltham Cross.
Late in his life he moved to Germany, where he was one of the first translators of Goethe"s Faust to English.
Bibliography
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Christopher Harper-Bill. Carole Rawcliffe, eds.
East Anglia"s History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe.
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