Arthur Melville Clark

Arthur Melville Clark FRSE (20 August 1895 – 21 March 1990) was a Scottish educationalist and author of several academic books about English literature and poetry.

He was born in Edinburgh on 20 August 1895 the son of Margaret Moyes (née McLachlan) and James Clark.

[1] On graduation in 1920 he began lecturing in English language and literature at the University of Reading.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1928, his proposers including Francis Albert Eley Crew.

Clark was awarded the Knights Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in the Second World War.