RICHARD FREDERICK CLARKE. - English Jesuit writer, b. in London on 24 Jan. 1839, d. in York on 10 Sept. 1900. After good studies at Oxford, he had been ordained a minister in the Anglican Church; he then entered the Catholic Church in 1869 and two years later the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Roehampton. Ordained a priest in 1878, he directed from 1882 to 1893 the journal The Month and in this period he demonstrated his qualities as a writer, preacher (especially of spiritual exercises) and spiritual director.
For the series of Manuals of Catholic Philosophy he then wrote the volume Logic (London 1889, reprinted in 1933), one of the best. Rector for two years in London (Wimbledon College), he then went to Oxford (1895) where he became superior of the new house for ecclesiastical students (Campion Hall): the former Oxford man exercised a great influence there. Besides many magazine articles, he wrote for the famous Catholic Truth Society various highly esteemed booklets.