John Willis Clark sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian.

Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis

Robert Willis (engineer)

The Reverend Robert Willis was an English academic. He was the first Cambridge professor to win widespread recognition as a mechanical engineer, and first set the scientific study of vowels on a respectable foundation, but now best remembered for his extensive architectural writings, including a...

. Educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, he spent his life at the university, serving as Fellow of Trinity Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology, and Registrary

Registrary

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 of the University. He was also Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society

Cambridge Antiquarian Society

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Works

• Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, with Robert Willis, 4 volumes, 1886.
• The Life and Letters of The Reverend Adam Sedgwick (1890) in 2 volumes v.1 v.2
• Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods (1894)
• The observances in use at The Augustinian Priory of S. Giles : and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire (1897) http://www.archive.org/details/observancesinuse00claruoft
• On the Vatican Library of Sixtus IV (1899]) http://www.archive.org/details/onvaticanlibrary00claruoft
• Old friends at Cambridge and elsewhere (1900) http://www.archive.org/details/oldfriendsatcamb00clarrich
• Cambridge; a concise guide to the town & university in [an introduction and] four walks (1902) http://www.archive.org/details/cambridgeconcise00clarrich
• Endowments of the University of Cambridge (1904) http://www.archive.org/details/endowmentsofuniv00clarrich
• Cambridge (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/cambridge00clariala
• The Care of Books (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/careofbooks00claruoft

Contributions to the DNB

DNB

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(1734-1820) (1655?-1728) (1791-1858) (1804-1892) (1800-1875) (1774-1846)

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