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Authorised form of nameClarke; Charles Baron (1832 - 1906)
Dates1832 - 1906
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAndover, Hampshire, England
Date of birth17 June 1832
Place of deathKew, Surrey
Date of death25/08/1906
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Andover, Hampshire
OccupationBarrister
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
King's College London; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1856), MA (1859)
Career:
Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn (1858); Lecturer in Mathematics, Queen's College, Cambridge; Inspector of Schools, Lower Provinces Bengal, Bengal Education Department (1865); placed on special duty to assist Joseph Hooker (FRS 1847) in preparing the 'Flora of British India' (1877); returned to India (1883); retired (1887); volunteer work, Kew Gardens; Joseph Hooker named the genus Clarkella after him; died after a short illness
Memberships:
FLS; FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1882
RelationshipsEldest son of Turner Poulter Clarke JP
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1907 vol 79 pp xlix-lvi signed by D P
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/79120714
CodeNA2884
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1882/08Clarke, Charles Baron: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000862Clarke, Charles Baronnd
IM/Maull/000861Clarke, Charles Baronnd
IM/Maull/000863Clarke, Charles Baronnd
NLB/4/632Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, Professor William Edward Ayrton, Charles Baron Clarke, William Henry Mahoney Christie, Dr Hugo Muller, Dr Armstrong, and Professor Joseph John Thomson.25 July 1890
NLB/6/807Copy letter from Theodore E James, Messrs Harrison & Sons 18 July 1892
NLB/6/499Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] 26 May 1892
NLB/6/619Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company13 June 1892
NLB/6/620Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Macmillan & Company13 June 1892
NLB/6/617Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Stanford, 26 & 27 Cockspur Street, S.W.13 June 1892
NLB/6/1000Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Stanford1 October 1892
NLB/6/974Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Stanford27 September 1892
NLB/6/685Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society27 June 1892
NLB/6/730Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, care of Professor Purser[?]4 July 1892
NLB/6/717Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster1 July 1892
NLB/6/835Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1892
NLB/6/929Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Stanford20 September 1892
NLB/6/1009Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Bolton, care of Mr Stanford3 October 1892
NLB/6/966Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society27 September 1892
NLB/9/605Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1894
NLB/16/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W T Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1898
NLB/24/66Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1902
NLB/24/28Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society17 February 1902
NLB/24/639Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1902
NLB/24/591Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Charles Baron] Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1902
NLB/25/671Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society, Kew5 December 1902
RR/11/134Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'On biologic regions and tabulation areas' by Charles Baron Clarke23 April 1892
RR/11/135Referee's report by William Thomas Blanford, on a paper 'On biologic regions and tabulation areas' by Charles Baron Clarke3 May 1892
RR/14/118Referee's report by Charles Baron Clarke, on a paper 'Studies in the morphology of spore-producing members.—No. IV. The leptosporangiate ferns' by Frederick Orpen Bower6 May 1899
NLB/6/769Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1892
NLB/6/686Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Stanford, 26 Cockspur Street, S.W.27 June 1892
NLB/6/588Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Charles Baron Clarke, Fellow of the Royal Society8 June 1892
AP/69/4/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the three-bar motion of Watt' by William Brennand1893
AP/70/1Unpublished paper, 'On a chart of the symmetrical curves of the three bar motion' by William Brennand1893
AP/68/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the Surya Siddhanta (Hindoo [sic] astronomy)' by William Brennand1891
AP/69/4Unpublished paper, 'On the three-bar motion of Watt' by William Brennand1893
AP/70/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On a chart of the symmetrical curves of the three bar motion' by William Brennand1893
PP/17/18/1Manuscript, 'Photometric observations of the Sun and sky' by William Brennand1890
PP/17/18Paper, 'Photometric observations of the Sun and sky' by William Brennand1890
AP/68/1Unpublished paper, 'On the Surya Siddhanta (Hindoo [sic] astronomy)' by William Brennand1891
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