Louis Clarke (antiquarian)

{{short description|British antiquarian, archaeologist, collector, and curator (1881–1960)}}

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{{infobox person

| name = Louis Clarke

| image = Louis Clarke in 1906 by de Laszlo.jpg

| caption = 1906 portrait by Philip de László

| birth_name = Louis Colville Gray Clarke

| birth_date = {{birth date|1881|05|02|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Croydon, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1960|12|13|1881|05|02|df=yes}}

| death_place = Cambridge, England

| alma_mater = {{plainlist|

• Trinity Hall, Cambridge
• Exeter College, Oxford

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| employer = {{plainlist|

• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
• Fitzwilliam Museum

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Louis Colville Gray Clarke {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} (1881–1960) was an antiquarian, archaeologist, collector and curator.{{r|BM|DNB}}

He was curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge from 1922 to 1937 and then director of Fitzwilliam Museum from 1937 to 1946. He was a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.{{r|WWW}}