Joseph Warner Clark (1856–85)

Chemist and physicist. Son of Joseph Turner Clark, a Quaker businessman in Southampton. Studied at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1874–5. Studied chemistry and physics at Heidelberg under Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen and Georg Hermann Quincke, 1876–7. Demonstrator in chemistry and physics, Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, 1877–81. Returned to Southampton in 1881. Joined Oliver Lodge in an unofficial capacity at University College, Liverpool, in 1883, becoming a demonstrator and then assistant professor of physics. Returned to Heidelberg on leave of absence due to ill health in 1885, and died there. Author of a number of scientific papers.