William Barnard Clarke
Map of Stockholm by W.B. Clarke 1938.
William Barnard Clarke (often abbreviated as W.B. Clarke; 1807–1894) was an English physician, architect, archaeologist and polymath. Born to a family of a senior portman and bailiff of Ipswich, William Barnard Clarke obtained a M.D. at the University of Edinburgh, but his main interest was architecture.[1] 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.[1] He was also an active member of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Architects' Institute of London.[1] Late in his life he moved to Germany, where he was one of the first translators of Goethe's Faust to English.[1]
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- (English) Plunkett, Steven J. (2002). Christopher Harper-Bill; Carole Rawcliffe; Richard George Wilson, eds. East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe. Boydell Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-85115-878-5.
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