Clarke, Samuel (1)

a celebrated English Orientalist, probably born in Northamptonshire in 1623, was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree of A.M. in 1648. In 1650 and 1658 he was master of a boarding-school at Islington, near London, during his stay at which place he assisted in correcting and publishing Walton's Polyglot Bible. He died at Holywell, Oxford, Dec. 27, 1669. Among his works, are, Varice Lectiones et Observationes in Chaldaicam Paraphrasim (in the above Polyglot, vi, 17):Scientia Metrica et Rhythmica (Oxon. 1661, 8vo). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.