JOHN CLARKE (DEAN OF SALISBURY)

'John Clarke' (1682--1757) was an English natural philosopher and dean of Salisbury Cathedral from 1728 to his death in 1757 [1]. John Clarke was the son of Edward Clarke, an alderman who represented the city of Norwich in parliament, and the younger brother of the philosopher Samuel Clarke. His own works include ''An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil'' (1720) [2].
Shortly after the death of his brother Samuel, John prepared Samuel's religious lectures and sermons for posthumous publication. In 1750, he prepared a new edition of William Wollaston's ''The Religion of Nature Delineated'', to which he added a life of the author, and English translations (made some years earlier for the use of Queen Caroline) of the extensive Hebrew, Greek, and Latin quotations in the book's notes.