3-052-450 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. E. Clarke, M.P. for Southwark, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. 'The newly-elected Conservative M.P. for Southwark...was born in London, in 1841...Mr. Edward Clarke was educated at the City Commercial School, Lombard-street, and afterwards became a student at Crosby Hall. He won the Society of Arts Prize, for English Literature in 1856, and that for History in 1857, and in the following year, being at the head of the first division in the Oxford Local Examination, became the first Associate in Arts. He is also an Associate of King's College, London. In 1859 he was one of the eight successful competitors from a crowd of 409 candidates for India Office appointments. He continued at the India Office until 1860, when he retired, and became a law student at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the Bar in 1864, and in 1866 published a treatise on "Extradition," which ran through a second edition in 1874. He goes the South-Eastern Circuit, and also practises at the Surrey Sessions. Mr. Clarke was formerly a contributor to the daily and weekly London newspaper press...He is a Freemason, Past Master of the Caledonian Lodge, 134, and is also a member of the Shipwrights' Company of London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.