| birth_date = 1840

| death_date = 1930

| occupation = banker<br />literary<br />anthropologist

| elected_ESL =

| elected_ASL = 1863.08.05

| elected_APS =

| elected_LAS =

| clubs = Century Club<br />Savile club<br />Johnson Club

| societies = Folklore Society<br />Royal Astronomical Society

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Edward Clodd (1 July 1840, Margate, Kent – 16 March 1930) was an English banker, writer and anthropologist.[1] He was the only surviving child of seven.[2] He cultivated a very wide circle of literary and scientific friends, who periodically met at Whitsun gatherings at his home at Aldeburgh, Suffolk.<br /><br />Hon. Treasurer of Folklore Society<br /><br />Born Margate, Kent; died Aldeburgh, Suffolk. His career was at London Joint Stock Bank. He published widely with many popular works to his name. His religious affiliation changed constantly over his lifetime, moving from Baptism to agnosticism-where his position was public and controversial.<br /><br />An English banker and author, born at Margate, the son of a ship owner. He attended after-hours lectures at Birkbeck, University of London, becoming the sub-editor of Knowledge and a member of numerous London literary and scientific clubs and societies. This put him in contact with many travellers and leading scientific and literary figures of the day. He also contributed articles to several encyclopedias. Clodd knew Burton in the early 1860s through the Anthropological Society, and also through Dr. George Bird. He left a reminiscence of both men<br /><br />

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Leeds U. [drafts of his books with letters received by him]<br />PRM donor