John Clarke (1682–1757) was an English natural philosopher and Dean of Salisbury from 1728 to his death in 1757.
He died at Salisbury on 10 February 1757, and was buried in the cathedral, where a monument was erected to his memory by his daughters.
[5] William Cole described John Clarke the younger as a lecturer in natural philosophy, and supplied details of his engagement to a French woman in exile.
Samuel Clarke had translated into Latin, with notes, the 'Traité de Physique' (1671) of Jacques Rohault; John Clarke published an English translation from his brother's Latin, with additional notes, under the title, 'Rohault's System of Natural Philosophy' &c., 2 vols.
[3] In 1750, he prepared a new edition of William Wollaston's The Religion of Nature Delineated, to which he added a life of the author,[8] and English translations (made some years earlier for the use of Queen Caroline) of the extensive Hebrew, Greek, and Latin quotations in the book's notes.