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John Willis Clark

John Willis Clark (1833 – 1910), sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian.

Academic career[edit]

Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent his life at the university, serving as Fellow of Trinity, Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology from 1866 to 1892, and Registrary of the university.[1] He was also Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.


He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library.[2]


Clark died in 1910, and is buried in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.


His son was Sir William Henry Clark.

with Robert Willis, 4 volumes, 1886.

Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge

(1890) in 2 volumes[3]

The Life and Letters of The Reverend Adam Sedgwick

(1894)

Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods

The observances in use at The Augustinian Priory of S. Giles : and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire (1897)

(1899)

On the Vatican Library of Sixtus IV

(1899)

A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Peterhouse

(1900)

Old friends at Cambridge and elsewhere

(1901)[4]

The Care of Books

(2nd edition, 1902); (1st edition, 1898)

Cambridge; a concise guide to the town & university in an introduction and four walks

(1904)

Endowments of the University of Cambridge

(1908)

Cambridge

"John Willis Clark", Obituary, The Times, 1910

Arthur Shipley

"Review of "J": a Memoir of John Willis Clark by A. E. Shipley"

at the Fitzwilliam Museum

John Willis Clark and The Care of Books

Clark, John Willis. (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (reissued by , 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00306-3)

Cambridge University Press

Clark, John Willis. (1902). The Care of Books. Cambridge University Press (reissued by , 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00508-1)

Cambridge University Press

Clark, John Willis. (1901). Specimens of Printing Types and Ornaments. Cambridge University Press (reissued by , 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00106-9)

Cambridge University Press

at Project Gutenberg

Works by John Willis Clark

at Internet Archive

Works by or about John Willis Clark

at Find a Grave

John Willis Clark