E. Warren Clark

Edward Warren Clark (January 27, 1849 – June 5, 1907) was an American educator who taught thousands of young Japanese the rudiments of modern science while employed as a teacher in Japan from 1871 to 1875.

Biography Edward Warren Clark was born on January 27, 1849, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Rufus Wheelwright Clark and Eliza C Clark. Clark and his family moved from Portsmouth to New York when he was six. A devout Christian, Clark sought to introduce the Bible and Christian doctrines to his students whenever possible.

Clark, who later became an Episcopalian priest, visited Japan on two later occasions and worked hard to garner American support for Japan during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). Clark was a close associate of William Elliot Griffis (1842–1928), widely regarded as the first major American Japanologist.