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Clarke, William Branwhite, 1798-1878

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Personal name headingClarke, William Branwhite, 1798-1878
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Variant(s)Clarke, W. B. (William Branwhite), 1798-1878
Associated countryEngland Great Britain Australia
Birth date1798-06-02
Death date1878-06
Place of birthEast Bergholt (England)
AffiliationKing's School (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Profession or occupationClergy Geologists
Found inGrainger, Elena. The remarkable Reverend Clarke, 1982: p. 23 (William Branwhite Clarke, b. on 2 June 1798) p. 257 (d. June 1878)
LCCN 10-3434: His Remarks on the sedimentary formations of New South Wales, 1878 (hdg.: Clarke, William Branwhite, 1798-1878; usage: W.B. Clarke)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Clarke, William Branwhite, 1798-1878; usage: the Rev. W. B. Clarke)
Wikipedia, March 5, 2019 (William Clarke (priest); FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society]; English geologist and clergyman, active in Australia; born at East Bergholt, Suffolk, 2 June 1798; died 16 June 1878, Australia; headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta, 1839-1840; ministered to parishes from Parramatta to the Hawkesbury River, then Campbelltown, and finally Willoughby, until 1870; made the first discovery of tin in Australia in 1849, and in 1859 he made known the occurrence of diamonds)
Associated languageeng