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Hyde Clarke, an English engineer and author, born in London, Dec. 14, 1815. He is the son of an engineer, and devoted himself to the same profession and the literature relating to it, and to statistics. He resided for a number of years in the East, familiarizing himself with oriental languages and promoting English enterprise in India and in connection with railways in Turkey. He has lately resided in London, and is foreign secretary and secretary for comparative philology of the ethnological society, and a member of many learned associations. Among his numerous works are "Theory of Railway Investment" (1846), "Engineering of Holland" (1849), "Comparative Philology" (1858), and an English dictionary (London, 1855; new enlarged ed., 1858) and grammar; and he has lately published the result of his studies of the Caucaso-Thibetan languages and of his prehistoric and philological researches. He speaks Turkish and other eastern languages fluently, and is a person of great industry and versatility.
 
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