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Memoir of Robert Clarhe . OBERT CLARKE , the son of R Cuthbert Clarke , an eminent provincial lecturer in natural and experimental philosophy , was born at «— - in Northumberland , in August
1767 . As his family removed soon after this into Devonshire , he was carried through London whilst a child . But returning , in a short time , to the north of England , his early years were passed partly at Dalton-le-Dale , in the county of Durham * and afterwards at
Belford , where his father successively resided , as a farmer . After the necessary rudiments of education , his attention was chiefly directed to mathematics and natural philosophy , in which , under his father ' eye , he made considerable progress : his knowledge of
the Latin and French languages being obtained at a later period of _ his life . Having chosen Surgery ai * d Medicine as his future profession , he * was placed under the care of Mr . Maxwel U of Newcastle-upon-Tynie , till" he had completed his nineteenth year ; add th £ n ,
removing to Edinburgh for a season , lie attended Dr . Black ' s Lectures on Chemistry , and the courses of other eminent professors . In 1737 , he engaged himself for about a year , as assistant to a Surgeon and Apothecary , iu Sunderland : and afterwards resided
two years , in the same capacity , with Mr . George Midford , of Morpeth , with whom he formed a strong and lasting mtimaey . At this time he was particular ly noticed by Dr . Keith , the friend of Beattie , * who was settled in that town , as a physician . Proceeding to Leith , in 1790 , on the death of his father , who had received subscri ptions for a course of Lectures , *« ich he was not able to dehuer , Mr . Clarke offered either to return the money , or to give the course himself
^ . See Forbes ' s Account of the Life and ^ mingspf Beattie , 8 vj > . vol . iii . p . 28 .
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The latter alternative was accepted , and his performance very generally approved . For a lecturer indeed , he had some of the most essential qualifications , uniting a clear and forcible
delivery , to an accurate knowledge uf his subject . His father having been * for many years , engaged in the annual publication of a New Astronomical Tide Calendar f 6 r several of the northern
ports , had recommended him , a short time before his death , to the publishers ^ as in every respect competent to con * - tinue it . Mr . Clarke , therefore , after surveying the different places , for which the tables were adapted , continued the
publication till the winter of X 7 Q 0 * when , the pecuniary recompense ha-ving never been adequate to the labour , it ceased , . amidst increasing engagements , to be an object deserving his attention - { li
In 179 U hp formedy another professional engageirieni pt Sunderland , which , lasting about two years , from the cultivation of some private friendships , and the growing celebrity of his talents , fixed the desjtiny of his future
life . During this period he was particularly active in promoting the object of the Humane Societyy for the recovery of persons in a state of suspended animation ; and for his great exertions , and his successful treatment of some
difficult cases , he was elected an honorary member , and received the thanks of the committee . A t the same time , he was a leading member of tlje Speculative Society for liberal and scientific discussion . And , at the close
of his engagement , he was occupied , for some months , in drawing plans for the specification of a patent for spinning hemp and laving ropes by machinery . In October 1793 , Mr . Clarke went
again to Edinburgh to complete his professional studies . He was supported , on thi 3 occasion , by the liberality of some private friends , anxious to release him from that state of depend *
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No . CXVIL ] SEPTEMBER , 1815 , [ Vol . X . ^¦ ^— ¦ ' ¦ " ' ' " ~~ ~~* ¦ —— . . , ¦ - ¦ - - t t _ _ , 1 __
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/1/
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