Scottish merchant, naval author, artist, geologist and landowner
Portrait of Clerk of Eldin by James Saxon, painted in 1805.
John Clerk of Eldin FRSE FSAScot (10 December 1728 – 10 May 1812) was a Scottish merchant, author, artist, geologist and landowner. The 7th son of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Bt, Clerk of Eldin was a figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, best remembered for his influential writings on naval tactics in the Age of Sail. A friend of geologist James Hutton, he was a brother-in-law of architect Robert Adam,[1] and a great-great-uncle of physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
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