CLARKE, ADAM, LL.D., a learned scholar and biblical critic, born of humble parents in 1762, and bred up as a minister among the Wesleyan Methodists. His early education was very limited; but by perseverance and industry he surmounted all obstacles, and became remarkable for the variety and extent of his literary acquirements, on which account he received from the university of St Andrews first the degree of M.A., and afterwards that of LL.D. In 1802 he published an excellent Bibliographical Dictionary in six vols., by which he acquired much reputation. He was then selected by the Record Commission to be the editor of Rymer's Federæ. But his great work, to which all his studies had been more or less preparatory, was his English version of the Holy Scriptures—which excited much attention from the novelty of some of the opinions he entertained, especially as to the fall of our first parents. The first volume appeared in 1810; the eighth and last in 1826. Dr Clarke fell a victim to the Asiatic cholera in 1832.